Re: Fix for slow snd-ali5451 initialization

[Sasha Khapyorsky <sashakh@gmail.com>]

On 11:54 Mon 07 Nov     , Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Sat, 5 Nov 2005 11:38:03 -0800 (PST),
> Vince Busam wrote:
> > 
> > The snd-ali5451 driver takes 10 seconds to load, which is quite annoying 
> > on a laptop that boots every day.  This patch lowers that to a much more 
> > managable time, and still works fine on my laptop.
> > 
> > Vince
> > 
> >      Summary: Speed up ali5451 initialization
> > 
> >      The patch speeds up loading the ali5451 driver by lowering the
> >      wait time in snd_ali_codec_ready()
> > 
> >      Author: Vince Busam <vince@sixpak.org
> >      Signed-off-by: Vince Busam <vince@sixpak.org>
> 
> Well, it's not a good solution.  It's already strange that so many
> timeouts occur.  And, the driver works correctly after that?  That is,
> you don't get any timeouts once after the driver is initialized?

This could be initialization attempt of non-existed secondary codec. At
least such attempt was reported in the past.

Vince, could you drop the content of your /proc/asound/card0/ali5451 file?

Sasha.


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