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

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 09 May 2016 17:46:52 +0200,
Jochen Henneberg wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK, I'll queue the patch.


thanks,

Takashi