linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/20] Remove references to undefined symbols and fix two potential bugs

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Date:   Wed, 07 Feb 2018 10:28:11 +0100
From:   Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>
To:     Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] Remove references to undefined symbols and fix two potential bugs

Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com> writes:

> The symbol AC97_BUS_NEW in sound/ac97/Kconfig selects the globally
> undefined symbol AC97.
>
> It doesn't seem to simply be a misspelling of AC97_BUS, because then
> the dependencies of AC97_BUS_COMPAT would be impossible to satisfy.
You're correct.

I don't know what happened to me when coding this, but you can safely remove
this useless select statement.

Cheers.

-- 
Robert