[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2.6.32.y, 2.6.34.y] ALSA: hda - ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs

[Ben Hutchings]

On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 10:56 -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> On 12-10-08 09:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:07 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> >> From: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley at intel.com>
> >> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:59:57 -0700
> >>
> >> commit d2edeb7c6f1dada8ca7d5c23e42d604e92ae0c76 upstream.
> >>
> >> This patch adds the HD Audio Controller DeviceIDs for the Intel Panther Point PCH.
> >>
> >> [jn: backported for 2.6.32.y by Ana Guerrero]
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley at intel.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> >> Tested-by: Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org> # EliteBook 8570w
> >> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>
> >> ---
> >> Hi Willy and Paul,
> >>
> >> Please consider
> >>
> >>   d2edeb7c6f1d ALSA: hda - ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Panther Point
> >>                DeviceIDs
> >>
> >> for application to the 2.6.32.y and 2.6.34.y trees.
> >>
> >> It does what it says on the cover.  The patch was merged in the 3.0
> >> cycle, so newer stable kernels don't need it.  Backported and
> >> tested[1] against Debian's 2.6.32.y-based kernel by Ana (cc-ed) --
> >> thanks!
> >>
> >> Thoughts of all kinds welcome, as always.
> > [...]
> > 
> > I queued up a whole series of device ID updates for Debian stable, as
> > they didn't obviously depend on other changes:
> > 
> > cea310e ALSA: hda_intel: ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
> > e35d4b1 ALSA: hda: add Vortex86MX PCI ids
> > 0f0714c ALSA: hda - Add support for VMware controller
> > d2edeb7 ALSA: hda - ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs
> 
> I found that d2edeb7c6f depends (only trivially, on context) on b686453543f,
> which makes a blanket class for intel IDs so that "...the driver will work
> with any new control chips in future."   In that respect, I guess it too
> (b68645) is in the same class as the other "add more IDs" patches?

Yes, it seems like this would also be worth adding.  (Always assuming
that any functional changes it depends on are also small enough for
stable.)  It's not a clean cherry-pick as the line above has changed.

Ben.

> Paul.
> --
> 
> > 
> > (They can be cherry-picked cleanly in the above order.)  But if I've
> > missed some post-2.6.32 dependencies then I would like to know.
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> 

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