Re: no sound in current -git

Justin P. Mattock
2011-05-26T20:14:13Z

On 05/26/2011 11:38 AM, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Justin P. Mattock
> <justinmattock@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 05/25/2011 10:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 12:33:38AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>>>
>>> > > sound over here is out as well on a macbook pro. seems gnome shell
>>> > > didn't like whats being merged with the current Mainline i.g. no
>>> sound
>>> > > bluetooth applet missing. will bisect when I get a chance.
>>> >
>>> > Maybe it was this that just got merged.. (building now)
>>> >
>>> > commit 4db70f73e56961b9bcdfd0c36c62847a18b7dbb5
>>> > Author: Eric Paris<eparis@redhat.com>
>>> > Date: Wed May 25 19:49:18 2011 -0700
>>> >
>>> > tmpfs: fix XATTR N overriding POSIX_ACL Y
>>>
>>> Yep. That fixes sound for me.
>>> Sorry for the false alarm Takashi!
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>
>> hmm.. pulled and noticed the above with git log, then did git revert for the
>> above, built, but still no sound. will do a bisect in the morning or later
>> on.
>
> That commit was the fix, not the origin of the bug, so reverting it
> was not the right thing to do!
>
> But it's only a fix if your .config has not yet been messed up (with
> CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR and CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL unset, though used
> somewhere for sound).
>
> So, just delete the CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR and CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
> lines from your .config (perhaps you don't even get an ACL line if the
> XATTR is not set, I forget) and run "make oldconfig", this time
> choosing Y.
>
> If this was your sound problem too, then the rebuilt kernel should fix it.
>
> Apologies for inflicting this on people: Linus spotted it and got it
> fixed up a.s.a.p so it only would only affect those who pulled a tree
> yesterday.
>
> Hugh
>

probably why my bisect wasn't going anywhere..(luckily not to much time
spent doing so) will pull when I get a chance. Thanks for letting us
know, and Thanks to Linus for the ASAP change.

Justin P. Mattock