linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 15/39] ALSA: hda/generic: Add option to enforce preferred

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Date:   Fri, 11 Dec 2020 09:36:21 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 15/39] ALSA: hda/generic: Add option to enforce
 preferred_dacs pairs

Hi!

> From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> 
> commit 242d990c158d5b1dabd166516e21992baef5f26a upstream.
> 
> The generic parser accepts the preferred_dacs[] pairs as a hint for
> assigning a DAC to each pin, but this hint doesn't work always
> effectively.  Currently it's merely a secondary choice after the trial
> with the path index failed.  This made sometimes it difficult to
> assign DACs without mimicking the connection list and/or the badness
> table.
> 
> This patch adds a new flag, obey_preferred_dacs, that changes the
> behavior of the parser.  As its name stands, the parser obeys the

Option added is never used as variable is never set. We don't need
this in 4.19.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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