We've got a regression report that 4.1-rc causes noises on a Dell laptop. Similar like Realtek codec, this seems also triggered by the recent power_save_node feature. As this kind of issue is quite hard to debug without actual hardware, disable the power_save_node flag for this codec as a workaround.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98971 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de --- sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c b/sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c index 0de0fd95144a..6833c74ed6ff 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c @@ -4696,7 +4696,8 @@ static int patch_stac92hd71bxx(struct hda_codec *codec) return err;

spec = codec->spec; - codec->power_save_node = 1; + /* disabled power_save_node since it causes noises on a Dell machine */ + /* codec->power_save_node = 1; */ spec->linear_tone_beep = 0; spec->gen.own_eapd_ctl = 1; spec->gen.power_down_unused = 1;