On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:38:58 -0200, > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I won't in this case. I think I will cook up a patch to disable the entire > > mixer subsystem in thinkpad-acpi if CONFIG_SND is not available. I don't > > like the depends on SND though. > > That's also not so trivial unless you give any dependency in Kconfig. > Without a restriction, THINKPAD_ACPI=y and SND=m can be chosen. "depends on SND || SND = n" takes care of the technical restrictions. I am testing the patch now. No ALSA, no volume subdriver, module still works (and prints some crap to syslog so that the user knows the driver could do more with ALSA support). > It'd be also not nice if suddenly a certain functionality disappears > without warning (even if the subsystem is enabled but as a module). The warning will be there. Although I don't warn of missing rfkill functionality if the kernel is missing the rfkill subsystem... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
