ACK: [SRU][OEM-5.13][PATCH 0/1] The front mic can't be detected on a lenovo thinkstation machine

[Tim Gardner]

Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

On 9/9/21 3:49 AM, Hui Wang wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1937144
> 
> The patch was already sent to oem-5.10, and the patch is already in
> the mainline kernel 5.14-rc3, our oem-5.13 kernel doesn't have this
> patch yet. So send this patch to oem-5.13 kernel only here.
> 
> [Impact]
> Users plug a headset or microphone to the front mic jack, but the
> system can't detect the plug and will not set the mic to be the
> active input device.
> 
> [Fix]
> Backport a upstream patch, this will change the front mic jack's
> name from Front Mic to Mic, then the pulseaudio could handle the
> plug/unplug.
> 
> [Test]
> Plug a headset to the front mic jack, open the gnome-sound-setting,
> the front mic is the active input device, use this device to record
> sound, it could record the sound successfully.
> 
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> It could make the other mic can't be detected, but this possibility is
> very low and I alreaed tested all audio jacks on that machine, all worked
> well as before.
> 
> 
> Hui Wang (1):
>    ALSA: hda/realtek: Fix pop noise and 2 Front Mic issues on a machine
> 
>   sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc