This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
alsa-hda-degrade-i915-binding-failure-message.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bed2e98e1f4db8b827df507abc30be7b11b0613d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:00:26 +0100
Subject: ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
commit bed2e98e1f4db8b827df507abc30be7b11b0613d upstream.
Currently HD-audio driver on Intel Skylake or Broxteon gives an error
message when binding with i915 audio component fails. However, this
isn't any serious error on a system without Intel graphics. Indeed
there are such systems, where a third-party codec (e.g. Creative) is
put on the mobo while using other discrete GPU (e.g. Nvidia).
Printing a kernel "error" message is overreaction in such a case.
This patch downgrades the print level for that message. For systems
that mandate the i915 binding (e.g. Haswell or Broadwell HDMI/DP),
another kernel error message is shown in addition to make clear what
went wrong.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111021
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Kouta Okamoto <kouta.okamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
sound/hda/hdac_i915.c | 2 +-
sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 6 ++++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c
+++ b/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ out_master_del:
out_err:
kfree(acomp);
bus->audio_component = NULL;
- dev_err(dev, "failed to add i915 component master (%d)\n", ret);
+ dev_info(dev, "failed to add i915 component master (%d)\n", ret);
return ret;
}
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
@@ -2088,9 +2088,11 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx
* for other chips, still continue probing as other
* codecs can be on the same link.
*/
- if (CONTROLLER_IN_GPU(pci))
+ if (CONTROLLER_IN_GPU(pci)) {
+ dev_err(chip->card->dev,
+ "HSW/BDW HD-audio HDMI/DP requires binding with gfx driver\n");
goto out_free;
- else
+ } else
goto skip_i915;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-degrade-i915-binding-failure-message.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-add-support-for-docking-station-for-hp-820-g2.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-enable-audio-component-for-old-intel-pch-devices.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-add-support-for-docking-station-for-hp-840-g3.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-clear-the-leftover-component-assignment-at-snd_hdac_i915_exit.patch
queue-4.4/alsa-hda-fix-yet-another-i915-pointer-leftover-in-error-path.patch