Re: [PATCH 00/38] Realtek HD-audio auto-parser

[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>]

On 02/24/2012 05:35 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for 3.4 kernel, finally I got rid of all static quirks from HD-audio
> Realtek codec parser.  This means that the all necessary quirks have
> been converted to alc_fixup either the pin-config overrides, the
> additional verbs, or the extra init functions.
>
> Since some machines have really weird pin mappings, I introduced the
> new mechanism in the parser to evaluate the best DAC->pin
> connections, which is based on the badness calculation.  You won't
> notice on most of machines but some machines that have fewer DACs than
> necessary output pins will get different mappings by this change.
>
> The whole changes can be seen in sound git tree topic/hda branch, as
> usual.
>      git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
>
> Now it's merged to main branch, so the snapshot tarball contains
> these changes, too.
>
> The rest of the thread will contain the changes in patch_realtek.c.
> It's just for refernces, and I omitted the other files.  For the
> complete changes, take a look at the git tree.

Hi Takashi,

I think this is a very good move. Unfortunately I don't have time to 
review all 38 patches thoroughly, but if there is anything in particular 
you would like a second pair of eyes on, let me know.

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
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