[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: hda - HDMI Audio init all connectors

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:00:24 +0100,
Steven Newbury wrote:
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> On 07/06/12 09:47, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At the next time you submit a patch, please add Cc to maintainer
> > and subsystem ML.  Otherwise it'd be easily overlooked.
> > 
> I meant to, somehow I managed to send it off before adding the CC,
> probably too early in the morning!
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> > At Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:52:59 +0100, Steven Newbury wrote:
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> >> When VGA_SWITCHEROO support is enabled hda_intel initialises the
> >> HDMI audio device on the current VGA device.  When it's not
> >> enabled it only initialises the HDMI device on the default VGA
> >> adaptor, this means secondary cards get no audio support which is
> >> very unhelpful for multi-seat!
> >> 
> >> With this patch, when SUPPORT_VGA_SWITCHEROO is disabled
> >> hda_intel initialises all HDMI audio devices, not just the
> >> default VGA.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Steven Newbury <steve at snewbury.org.uk>
> > 
> > OK, it must be fixed indeed.  The bug was introduced due to the
> > change in VGA-switcheroo side -- originally check_hdmi_disabled()
> > really checked the VGA-switcheroo state, so it returned the correct
> > value in the earlier version.
> > 
> > In anyway, your patch looks almost OK, but it'd be better to move 
> > ifdef and simplify like below.  Could you check whether it works
> > for you?
> > 
> Looks better, saves the pointless function call. I'll give it spin on
> my next boot.

Thanks!

Meanwhile I found that the current version is also buggy for some
setups with VGA-switcheroo.  The current version won't work, for
example, when VGA-switcheroo is built-in for systems without
switcheroo.  I'll need to cook up the fix for 3.5-rc2 in addition to
your fix.


Takashi