Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:10:08 +0100,
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> On Friday, 18 of January 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Subject		: snd_hda_intel 2.6.24-rc2 bug: interrupts don't always work on Lenovo X60s
> > > > Submitter	: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
> > > > Date		: 2007-11-08 14:55
> > > > References	: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/8/255
> > > > 		  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9332
> > > > Handled-By	: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> > > > 		  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > > > Patch		: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66
> > 
> > This patch went in, but was reverted because it caused more problems than 
> > it fixed. And what it "fixed" was somewhat dubious anyway.
> 
> It was reported to break suspend on one box, but Takashi wants it in, AFAICS,
> as quite some time has been invested into figuring out what's going wrong in
> that case.

Hm, I thought Ingo's patch fixed that case on the contrary...

Anyway, this patch is still on alsa.git, planned for 2.6.25, but with
additional workarounds for known problematic codecs and a bit more
robust timeout checks.


Takashi