[alsa-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: Kconfig: add config menu for reduced memory footprint

[Jie, Yang]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai at suse.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 8:39 PM
> To: Jie, Yang
> Cc: broonie at kernel.org; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; Girdwood, Liam R; Zhang, Vivian
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: Kconfig: add config menu for reduced
> memory footprint
> 
> At Tue, 26 May 2015 12:32:43 +0000,
> Jie, Yang wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Takashi Iwai [mailto:tiwai at suse.de]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 7:05 PM
> > > To: Jie, Yang
> > > Cc: broonie at kernel.org; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; linux-
> > > kernel at vger.kernel.org; Girdwood, Liam R; Zhang, Vivian
> > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: Kconfig: add config menu for reduced
> > > memory footprint
> > >
> > > At Tue, 26 May 2015 19:04:24 +0800,
> > > Jie Yang wrote:
> > > >
> > > > For some embedded devices, we need reduce code size and data
> > > > footprint as much as possible, e.g. disabling procfs, hw/sw params
> > > > refinement, mmap, dpcm, dapm, compressed API...
> > > >
> > > > Here add root config menu for those configuration, and disable
> > > > procfs once reduced memory footprint is selected.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Jie Yang <yang.jie at intel.com>
> > > > ---
> > > >  sound/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++++++++
> > > >  1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > diff --git a/sound/Kconfig b/sound/Kconfig index 5a240e0..6760dfa
> > > > 100644
> > > > --- a/sound/Kconfig
> > > > +++ b/sound/Kconfig
> > > > @@ -68,6 +68,22 @@ menuconfig SND
> > > >
> > > >  if SND
> > > >
> > > > +menuconfig SND_REDUCED_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT
> > > > +	bool "Reduced Memory Footprint Support"
> > > > +	default n
> > > > +	help
> > > > +	  Say 'Y' to enable Reduced Memory Footprint Support, which may
> > > > +	  reduce code size and data footprint as much as possible.
> > >
> > > I'd like to move this into sound/core.
> > > Also, the kconfig name appears a bit too lengthy to me.
> > >
> > > > +config SND_PROC_FS
> > > > +	bool "Sound Proc FS Support"
> > > > +	depends on PROC_FS && !SND_REDUCED_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT
> > >
> > > This should be
> > > 	bool "Sound Proc FS Support"
> > > if !SND_REDUCED_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT
> > > 	depends on PROC_FS
> > >
> > > In this way, this prompt would appear only when
> > > SND_REDUCED_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT is set, i.e. only for experts.
> >
> > Takashi, I tested and found same for these two way, the prompt will
> > appear only when PROC_FS=y and SND_REDUCED_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT
> is *not*
> > set. BTW, seems here we should use without '!'?
> >
> >  	bool "Sound Proc FS Support" if
> SND_REDUCED_MEMORY_FOOTPRINT
> 
> Yes.  It was my typo.  An expression 'type "prompt" if xxx' means that the
> prompt appears only if xxx is true.
 
Got it, thanks. Will update and resend the patch soon.

~Keyon

> 
> 
> Takashi
> 
> >  	depends on PROC_FS
> >
> > ~Keyon
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > Takashi
> > >
> > > > +	default y
> > > > +	help
> > > > +	  Say 'N' to disable Sound proc FS, which may reduce code size about
> > > > +	  9KB on x86_64 platform.
> > > > +	  If unsure say Y.
> > > > +
> > > >  source "sound/core/Kconfig"
> > > >
> > > >  source "sound/drivers/Kconfig"
> > > > --
> > > > 1.9.1
> > > >
> >