From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932165Ab0I3Pll (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:41:41 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:45679 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932117Ab0I3Plk (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:41:40 -0400 Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:41:39 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jeff Chua Cc: Wu Fengguang , Linux Kernel , "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" , Jaroslav Kysela Subject: Re: Microphone not working on PCI ID 8086:3b56 In-Reply-To: References: <20100930132937.GA5728@localhost> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.6 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/23.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:34:44 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Wu Fengguang wrote: > > > Intel HDMI audio selects SND_DYNAMIC_MINORS because it runs out of the > > static minor numbers. I initially proposed an extended static > > allocation scheme here: > > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.alsa.devel/72916 however the > > idea was rejected. > > > >> Do I really need udev to get mic to work? > > > > You can disable SND_HDA_CODEC_INTELHDMI for now. You don't need it. > > Does not make sense to force everyone to use udev. Otherwise you can't handle enough PCM devices. > Any chance to make it work without udev? The minor numbers are almost static as long as you don't change the configuration. So, you can recreate /dev/snd/* files appropriately, if needed. Or just simply patch as you did :) Takashi