[Precise][Patch 0/2] ALSA: hda/realtek - Finer tuning of auto-parser with badness evaluation

[Joseph Salisbury]

On 06/27/2012 02:26 PM, joseph.salisbury at canonical.com wrote:
> From: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/994685
> 
> == Precise SRU Justification ==
> 
> This bug is a regression from Oneiric.  This bug prevents end users from using the headphone jack.
> 
> == Fix ==
> 
> commit 1c4a54b4513c175ba1a56d0aba8d9cf8f231d407
> Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> Date:   Thu Feb 16 16:45:59 2012 +0100
> 
>     ALSA: hda/realtek - Finer tuning of auto-parser with badness evaluation
>     
> 
> commit 07b18f69a766375736a5313c29d808e59b1e13e9
> Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
> Date:   Thu Nov 10 15:42:54 2011 +0100
> 
>     ALSA: hda/realtek - Create multi-io jacks more aggresively
>     
> Commit 07b18f6 allows us to cleanly cherry-pick the actual fix, commit 1c4a54b.
> Both commits had to be backported to apply cleanly to Precise.
> 
> 
> == Impact ==
> 
> Without this patch, the headphone jack does not work for a set of users.
> 
> == Test Case ==
> A test kernel was built with these patchs and tested by the original bug reporter.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Takashi Iwai (2):
>   ALSA: hda/realtek - Create multi-io jacks more aggresively
>   ALSA: hda/realtek - Finer tuning of auto-parser with badness
>     evaluation
> 
>  sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c |  412 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 330 insertions(+), 82 deletions(-)
> 

There is allot of changes in these patches.  If there is too much churn
for SRU approval, I can look into identifying the commit that introduced
the regression in Precise and see if it can be reverted.