thinkpad-acpi: make volume subdriver optional

Allow the user to choose through Kconfig if the Console Audio Control
interface (aka "volume subdriver") should be available or not.

This not only saves some memory, but also allows the thinkpad-acpi
driver to be built-in even if ALSA is modular when the console audio
control interface is not wanted.

This change fixes a build problem that is causing some annoyances, in
a way that doesn't disable the entire driver on kernels without ALSA
support.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Helight Xu <helight.xu@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
index ec4faffe6b05..2462dc30b39b 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
@@ -233,6 +233,29 @@ config THINKPAD_ACPI
 
           If you have an IBM or Lenovo ThinkPad laptop, say Y or M here.
 
+config THINKPAD_ACPI_ALSA_SUPPORT
+        bool "Console audio control ALSA interface"
+        depends on THINKPAD_ACPI
+        depends on SND
+        depends on SND = y || THINKPAD_ACPI = SND
+        default y
+        ---help---
+          Enables monitoring of the built-in console audio output control
+          (headphone and speakers), which is operated by the mute and (in
+          some ThinkPad models) volume hotkeys.
+
+          If this option is enabled, ThinkPad-ACPI will export an ALSA card
+          with a single read-only mixer control, which should be used for
+          on-screen-display feedback purposes by the Desktop Environment.
+
+          Optionally, the driver will also allow software control (the
+          ALSA mixer will be made read-write).  Please refer to the driver
+          documentation for details.
+
+          All IBM models have both volume and mute control.  Newer Lenovo
+          models only have mute control (the volume hotkeys are just normal
+          keys and volume control is done through the main HDA mixer).
+
 config THINKPAD_ACPI_DEBUGFACILITIES
         bool "Maintainer debug facilities"
         depends on THINKPAD_ACPI