Re: Band-aid solution for Dell Latitude E6410/E6510 microphone

[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>]

On 2010-09-29 04:09, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm sending out a patch that I didn't write (and thus most likely require
> David's Signed-Off), but which I think might be a good idea to at least
> have accessible to search.
>
> As David already pointed out to me, the proper fix for the issue is
> Takashi's commit 75e0eb24ee3ec3549c2e53707dcc87e5f7a2c791, but that hasn't
> made it into .36 RCs and thus seem unlikely to come to users anytime soon.
>
> David's patch is a "band aid" solution; it solves most of the problem by
> adding one more special case to the sigmatel patches; on the other hand it
> makes the internal microphone to work fine on my laptop, which is a good
> thing, right?

It might also break docking station microphones on the same machines, 
which is why I thought it was no use trying to send it to stable. But if 
stable wants to add it, I'd be glad to give a sign-off or whatever 
necessary.

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