[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: HDMI - Clear Audio Enable bit for Hot Plug unconditionally

[Takashi Iwai]

At Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:18:08 +0200,
Daniel Vetter wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > But, this makes me wonder why this patch can't go into 3.6.  It's a
> > clear bug and the fix is trivial.
> >
> > Daniel, isn't it better to pick the fix (for 3.6) to drm-intel-fixes,
> > then merge back to drm-intel-next?
> 
> Well, on a quick read-through it didn't sound serious (just a bit of
> noise in dmesg and a few spurious reconfigs),

For the graphics side, yes.  But for the sound driver side, you'll
miss the jack-detection unplug event without this fix.

> and we're rather late in
> the -rc cycle.

Yes, but a bug is a bug is a bug :)
And the fix is two-liners.  If there were no conflict, would you mind
it?  I don't think so.

> Applying this on top of -fixes will cause a conflict, so didn't looked
> like I should bother.

Yeah, that's bad.

> Also, I _want_ the patch for -next so that git
> blame shows the commit and not some random conflicting merge.

With parallel development, you can't always get straight lines, as you
know well...


Takashi