On Sun, Mar 18, 2018 at 08:49:52PM -0400, valdis.kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:08:10 -0000, John Whitmore said: > > > Sometimes however you get a module which don't give this information. Is this > > intentional, signify something, or just an oversight for that config option? > > For example SND_HDA_CORE: > > > Symbol: SND_HDA_CORE [=m] > > Type : tristate > > Defined at sound/hda/Kconfig:1 > > Depends on: SOUND [=y] && !UML && SND [=y] > > Selects: REGMAP [=y] > > Selected by: > > - SND_HDA_EXT_CORE [=m] && SOUND [=y] && !UML && SND [=y] > > - SND_HDA [=m] && SOUND [=y] && !UML && SND [=y] > > Some internal symbols don't have any visible menu-selects, because they are > intended to be turned on only via other things doing 'SELECT'. After all, > SND_HDA_CORE has little to no reason to be enabled unless your kernel build > config asks for SND_HDA or SND_HDA_EXT_CORE (and *that* symbol is 'm', which is > why SND_HDA_CORE is also ''m'. Switching EXT_CORE to 'y' will then auto-switch > this one to 'y' as well). > Perfectly logical and simple. Thanks for your answer that now all makes sense. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
