2.1.79: make config bad -> sound cfg questions skipped? /// Configure.help

Nicola Bernardelli (nbern@mail.protos.it)
Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:36:41 +0100 (MET)


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Hello,

As usual I'm not asking for help, I'm just reporting (to Marcus Brinkmann
too, though I already consulted him before sending this to the list).

1) Now make config limits to 'M'odule the answer to any item being part of
a module, that is: sound configured as 'M'odule => any of its item can't
be 'Y'es/'M'odule/'N'ot (or 'Y'es/'N'ot with 'Y'es meaning "it will be
compiled and will go to the sound support you asked to prepare as a
module"), but instead 'M'odule/'N'ot. Ok, the point is that afterwards,
almost in the sound case but maybe it is a general logical fault, it
happens that questions are skipped that would instead be posed in case you
had answered 'Y'es, I see it happen after the CONFIG_SB item, as you can
see comparing the two attachments. The items corresponding to the skipped
questions do _not_ appear in the resulting .config file, and there's no
connection to /etc/soundconf as 2.0.29 did (anyway 2.1.55 didn't save/read
to/from there either, I suppose developers may have decided that it is
better to have anything in /usr/src/.config, or they may want to
reactivate that separate soundconf file for the next _stable_ series of
kernels).

(Besides I don't find in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/Readme.cards what
parameters could be used at boot time or insmod time to set up those
values for the Soundblaster PNP [it is an AWE64 Gold here]. I tried
configuring sound not as a module answering 'Y'es [no warnings from the
make procedure - it's probably asking _too_much_ from it - though the
kernel was not configured above to handle PNP, which can't be done via
isapnp if sound is not loaded later as a module] then redoing 'make
config' answering 'M'odule, and those values did not "survive" in the
resulting .config file. Even tried writing them by hand in the .config
file, though it is recommended that it sould _not_ be edited, but yet no
mixer nor sequencer device found.)

2) In /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Configure.help I can't find any help
about SB_MPU_IRQ (of course maybe it will just come... anyway I saw
that option months ago in 2.1.55 so it may also be that item has been
forgotten as for the Configure.help doc).

Nicola Bernardelli <nbern@mail.protos.it>
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