When the widget power-saving is enabled, the first automute hook invocation checks through the whole pins and it also tries to synchronize the power state. However, this results in a wrong state because it calls unconditionally snd_hda_jack_detect_state(). This patch adds a check of jack detectability before the actual jack detection call.
What happen when the computer has no headphone jack ?
No mic jack and internal mic
Those thin mini itx motherboard use firmware to disable mixer and remove all input pins
# Prevent the AA-loopback from being enabled which can pull in white noise (ACI#380) [hint] mixer_nid = 0
Will the driver still power down the audio mixer and audio inputs ?
Seem driver still create capture device when there is no input pins