[alsa-devel] Please backport "ALSA: hda - Move one-time init codes from generic_hdmi_init" to 3.4/3.5

Hi,

This is a real oldie, but better late than never.

A while back, I discovered that this patch would help against a kernel panic when "cat /proc/asound/card0/codec0" was executed on this machine, which was running an fglrx driver.

I asked for a stable backport, but Takashi wanted testing to make sure this was actually fixed by the patch [1]. And now, several months later, I have this confirmation [2].

The test was conducted on an 3.5 Ubuntu kernel, based on the 3.5 extended stable tree, but would apply equally well to 3.4.

I'm attaching the backported patch - it applied cleanly, I've just added an extra section with an explanation.