From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752743Ab0I2GPn (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:15:43 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:55806 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751437Ab0I2GPm (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:15:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4CA2D989.8050205@canonical.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:15:37 +0200 From: David Henningsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100903 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?RGllZ28gRWxpbyBQZXR0ZW7Dsg==?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Subject: Re: Band-aid solution for Dell Latitude E6410/E6510 microphone References: <1285726141-26448-1-git-send-email-flameeyes@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1285726141-26448-1-git-send-email-flameeyes@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd. http://launchpad.net/~diwic