Re: CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=m does not compile ac97_audio

[Jeff Garzik]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:54:34PM -0400, Brian M. Hunt wrote:
> Compiling Linux Kernel 2.4.20
> CONFIG_SOUND_ICH=m does not compile ac97_codec.o, which it depends upon.
> 
> CONFIG_SOUND_ICH is described as 'Intel ICH (i8xx), SiS 7012, NVidia
> nForce Audio or AMD 768/811x'
> 
> It is listed in drivers/sound/Makefile:63
> obj-$(CONFIG_SOUND_ICH)     += i810_audio.o ac97_codec.o
> 
> Some of the other sound drivers as modules that depend upon
> ac97_config.o do compile it.

eh?  It only needs to be compiled once, for all the modules that use it.

You don't compile it for each sound driver that uses it; it is a shared,
common module.

	Jeff