Re: [GIT PULL] sound updates for 6.17-rc1

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:45:35 +0200,
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 at 21:21, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > I think that's realtek, but when I enable it, I get this mess of
> > "which realtek", which I have no idea because the ALC3271 that the
> > kernel used to print out is not mentioned.
> 
> Enabling them all makes the kernel recognize it as a ALC3271 again,
> and it appears to have loaded the alc269 one.
> 
> But sound is still gone, so there's something else still missing. But
> I'm heading off for the night now...

It's a dilemma of the default kconfig enablement.  In general we want
to keep the default disabled for leaf drivers.

CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK is still present but now it's a
menuconfig, so this is taken over from the previous config.  The
remaining CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ALC* are the missing stuff.
Maybe we should set CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ALC*=y as default as an
exception for smooth upgrade?

I guess the same applies to the HDMI audio stuff, too.


Takashi