[alsa-devel] commit b1ef29725865 (ACPI _REV=2) causes sound regression on Dell XPS 13 [Was: Discussion around quirking the _REV behavior for the XPS 13 (2015) until 4.2]

[Dominik Brodowski]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 01:38:59AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:43:33 AM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Mario Limonciello
> > <mario_limonciello at dell.com> wrote:
> > > Just to be clear, from the Dell side only the XPS 13 9343 has this _REV
> > > behavior.
> > 
> > The Inspiron 7437 queries _REV and uses it to modify its EC behaviour,
> > and apparently breaks on Linux without that.
> > 
> > > What's wrong with a DMI quirk until I2S is mature on the kernel side and
> > > userspace is new enough in distros?  Is it too early in boot for DMI quirks?
> > > That would enforce that no other machines can use _REV value of 5 to detect
> > > Linux without breaking the 9343.
> > 
> > DMI quirking is fine, but it has to be behind a config option. We're
> > going to have to carry the quirk for several years because we have to
> > support old userspace for an arbitrarily long time, and if there's no
> > config option then Linux will be stuck in HDA mode for that entire
> > time.
> 
> One problem with the DMI-based approach is that _REV is constant in ACPICA,
> so to be able to return different values from it for different systems, we'll
> need to add some ACPICA-ish code handling that specifically for Linux and
> we're a bit too late in the cycle for that.
> 
> So here's what I'm going to do.  I'll revert commit b1ef29725865 for 4.1,
> but *only* for 4.1 (I've actually queued up a revert of it already) and
> I'll revert that revert during the 4.2 merge window.

Sounds like a good plan. Thanks!

> In the meantime, we'll develop the code to implement the DMI-based quirks
> for the Dells and apply it for 4.2.
> 
> Are there any volunteers for doing the last part?

Will try to prepare patches for that tomorrow.

Best,
	Dominik
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