Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix the Dell XPS 8940 headset microphone

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Tue, 10 Nov 2026 17:24:15 +0100,
Angel J wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday, November 10th, 2026 at ..., Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > Honestly speaking, the problem is that I don't know you, so I can't
> > trust.  If you have been involved with the kernel development long
> > enough, e.g. already appearing with "Angel J" in many threads or
> > commits, then it could be a good sign that it's a trustable known
> > identity.  But it doesn't look like that for now...
> 
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> That is fair, I am new to kernel development. Outside the kernel I am
> an active open source contributor, mostly to NixOS, with over 100
> merged changes in nixpkgs and contributions to other projects from
> this account:
> 
> https://github.com/iamanaws
> 
> I am not comfortable publishing my full name in a public archive. If
> the above is not enough, is there another way I could establish the
> identity that would work for you?

Well, although I'm not comfortable with the situation, the code change
itself is so trivial and can't do anything seriously wrong -- so it's
not wise to delay it just because of that, and I took as is now.


thanks,

Takashi