Re: [alsa-devel] Kernel config issue: SND_HDA_RECONFIG depends on SND_HDA_HWDEP

On Mo, 2016-05-09 at 14:42 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

Basically, the reconfig itself may be performed without hwdep in the recent version, e.g. triggered by the patch firmware. So, the commit decoupled the hwdep and the reconfig parts individually. If people needs the manual reconfig via sysfs, it still needs SND_HDA_HWDEP, yes. But it's not mandatory for doing the reconfig via patch.

That said, reverting the kconfig dependency doesn't sound right in this case. Instead, we need to correct and enhance the help text in Kconfig for avoiding the misunderstanding.

Does the patch below clarify enough?

That's fine. It will help build custom kernels like I have to do.

Thanks. -Jochen