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

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Date:	Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:57:11 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Henningsson <david.henningsson@...onical.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [ 093/153] ALSA: hda - hdmi: Make jacks phantom, if theyre not
 detectable

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 08:46 +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.

OK, I've dropped this from the 3.2.y queue.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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