Re: 2.5.14 OSS emulation

[John Weber]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:14:40PM +0200, Pierre Rousselet wrote:
> 
>> From ChangeLog-2.5.14 :
>>
>><[e-mail]> (02/05/05 1.545)
>>	[PATCH] fix config.in syntax errors.
>>        - sound uses a bool where it should use a dep_bool
>>
>>This prevents using OSS emulation with ALSA drivers. What is the reason 
>>behind ?
> 
> 
> 2.4.13 used to do (in sound/core/Config.in):
> 
> bool '  OSS API emulation' CONFIG_SND_OSSEMUL $CONFIG_SND
> 
> The bool verb take exaxctly two arguments, the option description
> and the config option itself, if you want additional depencies you
> have to use dep_bool instead.
> 
> If this fix breaks ALSA it only shows that it has even deeper config
> problems - I don't use ALSA and care only about the syntactical
> correctness of that file.

This is very true.  I've had trouble getting my YMFPCI sound to work 
with ALSA probably for this reason: bad configs.  (After all, I was told 
the YMFPCI code is the same for OSS and ALSA).