[Maverick SRU] (pre-stable) Fix alsamixer error for ALC887-VD

[Brad Figg]

On 11/29/2010 05:53 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> On 11/29/2010 11:08 AM, David Henningsson wrote:
>> SRU Justification:
>>
>> Impact: Sound is not working for an increasing number of users, so
>> that's why I'd like this in the kernel ASAP.
>>
>> Fix: In linux-2.6, commits 01e0f1378c47947b825eac05c98697ab1be1c86f and
>> cc1c452e509aefc28f7ad2deed75bc69d4f915f7.
>>
>> Testcase: For patch 1, start alsamixer and notice that it does not give
>> an error message, but starts successfully. For patch 2, notice that
>> there is a Headphone volume control.
>>
>> BugLink: http://launchpad.net/bugs/682596
>>
>
> Seems to isolate things well enough. Though patch 2 in particular looks like an
> example from the black art of in-comprehensive programming book.
>
> Assuming Takashi knows better.
>
> Acked-by: Stefan Bader<stefan.bader at canonical.com>
>

Pulled and pushed to Maverick master-next.

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