Stephen Warren wrote:
As Takashi mentions, from a kernel perspective, this isn't really a regression at all, but simply exposing all the features of the HW that were previously hidden. Without that change, others can't use some HW usefully at all. Unfortunately, pulseaudio makes some rather simplistic assumptions about how HW works by default, and can be confused by the additional features that are exposed.
_From a distro perspective, it's a regression that happens to be bundled with a feature. Though from a distro perspective working around this in pulseaudio and making sure even old releases get the fix might be okay.
I thought that "no regressions" meant that the first sentence and not the second sentence of the previous paragraph apply from a kernel perspective. No? So I would be happiest if there is some way to teach the kernel about this quirk until everyone already has had a fixed pulseaudio for a year or two.
Jonathan