Re: [PATCH 2.6.32.y, 2.6.34.y] ALSA: hda - ALSA HD Audio patch forIntel Panther Point DeviceIDs

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 10:57:13 EST


On 12-10-08 09:55 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-10-08 at 18:07 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> From: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:59:57 -0700
>>
>> commit d2edeb7c6f1dada8ca7d5c23e42d604e92ae0c76 upstream.
>>
>> This patch adds the HD Audio Controller DeviceIDs for the Intel Panther Point PCH.
>>
>> [jn: backported for 2.6.32.y by Ana Guerrero]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Ana Guerrero <ana@xxxxxxxxxx> # EliteBook 8570w
>> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> Hi Willy and Paul,
>>
>> Please consider
>>
>> d2edeb7c6f1d ALSA: hda - ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Panther Point
>> DeviceIDs
>>
>> for application to the 2.6.32.y and 2.6.34.y trees.
>>
>> It does what it says on the cover. The patch was merged in the 3.0
>> cycle, so newer stable kernels don't need it. Backported and
>> tested[1] against Debian's 2.6.32.y-based kernel by Ana (cc-ed) --
>> thanks!
>>
>> Thoughts of all kinds welcome, as always.
> [...]
>
> I queued up a whole series of device ID updates for Debian stable, as
> they didn't obviously depend on other changes:
>
> cea310e ALSA: hda_intel: ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Patsburg DeviceIDs
> e35d4b1 ALSA: hda: add Vortex86MX PCI ids
> 0f0714c ALSA: hda - Add support for VMware controller
> d2edeb7 ALSA: hda - ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel Panther Point DeviceIDs

I found that d2edeb7c6f depends (only trivially, on context) on b686453543f,
which makes a blanket class for intel IDs so that "...the driver will work
with any new control chips in future." In that respect, I guess it too
(b68645) is in the same class as the other "add more IDs" patches?

Paul.
--

>
> (They can be cherry-picked cleanly in the above order.) But if I've
> missed some post-2.6.32 dependencies then I would like to know.
>
> Ben.
>
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