Re: [PATCH 1/1] ALC889A chip identification

[Torben Schulz <public@letorbi.de>]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 15 May 2009 07:50:46 +0200,
> I wrote:
>> BTW, regarding the strings: basically we can do a better clean-up by
>> using already existing strings.  For example, make new fields,
>> hda_codec.vendor_name and hda_codec.chip_name, which points the vendor
>> id string in hda_codec.c and the chip name string in
>> snd_hda_codec_preset struct respectively.  Then all PCM name strings
>> can be created automatically.
> 
> The patch is something like below.  It's just compile tested.

I just applied your patch the latest snapshot and it works perfect. My chipset is now identified correctly, so my patch seems to be obsolete now, I guess ^^ However, I have three (main) questions:

1.: What are the next steps now? Will you post your patch again to the ML under an own topic or will it stay in this thread?

2.: Can I do anything to help bringing your patch into the official repository? When will it be part of an official snapshot?

3.: Why doesn't hda_codec_preset.patch point to patch_alc883, but to patch_alc882 which later redirects to patch_alc883 (see patch_realtek.c line 7305 and 16958 (patched version))?

It's quite essential for me to bring this patch into an official snapshot, since a lot of the changes interact with my MacBook3,1 patch and I would like to diff against a snapshot which includes your patch already. (or is this - for some reason - bad style?)

Bai
Torben