Re: 2.6.26-rc1 sound regression

[Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com>]

Wolfgang Erig wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my sound stops working with 2.6.26-rc1,
> alsaplayer makes intermitted random noise.
> Bisecting worked fine and the last steps were:
> 
> $ git bisect good
> Bisecting: 9 revisions left to test after this
> [71848d687e2a477cb7c68a854d8fdeaa5dff0ffc] x86: remove virt_to_bus in pci-dma_64.c
> 
> $ git bisect good
> Bisecting: 4 revisions left to test after this
> [8f19ca1341a6d89bd96e2e69e6e10f46d3258089] x86: unify gfp masks
> 
> $ git bisect bad
> Bisecting: 2 revisions left to test after this
> [45a07e774950ef479f8996c0e2c5550dd6440453] x86: use a fallback dev for i386
> 
> $ git bisect good
> Bisecting: 1 revisions left to test after this
> [5fa78ca75d8e67063948a01b51594a0904af5710] x86: retry allocation if failed
> 
> The last kernel is bad.
> Checked 2.6.26-rc2 too which is bad.
> 
> This is a 10+x year old laptop, but it does useful work for me.
> The driver is snd_sb8.
> 
> Wolfgang
This is probably the same issue we had at http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/8/522

Can you please confirm we're talking about the same issue, i.e. , if the 
posted fix also fix your issue?

thanks.