linux-kernel - Re: [ 093/153] ALSA: hda - hdmi: Make jacks phantom, if theyre not detectable

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Message-ID: <20130304074850.GA1136@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Mar 2013 15:48:50 +0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	David Henningsson <david.henningsson@...onical.com>
Cc:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [ 093/153] ALSA: hda - hdmi: Make jacks phantom, if theyre not
 detectable

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 08:46:16AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 03/04/2013 06:13 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 03:38 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >>3.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >>
> >>------------------
> >>
> >>From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@...onical.com>
> >>
> >>commit 30efd8debd1ef30be342d374f01e993509f5b76b upstream.
> >>
> >>Just as for analog codecs, a jack that isn't suitable for detection
> >>(in this case, NO_PRESENCE was set) should be a phantom Jack
> >>instead of a normal one.
> >>
> >>Thanks to Raymond Yau for spotting.
> >>
> >>BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/961286
> >>BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903869
> >>Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@...onical.com>
> >>Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> >>[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust context]
> >>Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> >
> >David, do I need to change this further for 3.2.y?
> 
> Greg and Ben,
> 
> Given some thought, the definition of is_jack_detectable has
> changed/improved over kernels. Therefore I think it's safer not to
> apply the patch at all for kernels earlier than 3.6. Let's revisit
> this decision if there's actually a user demand for this fix.

So should I revert this in the next 3.4 release, as it's now in the
3.4.35 release.

thanks,

greg k-h
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