Bug#960493: linux-image-4.19.0-9-amd64: Audio regression on HP Pavilion laptop

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Steven,

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:48:27AM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 4.19.118-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> After installing linux-image-4.19-0-9-amd64 my desktop environment no longer
> detects the sound card (it reverts to the dummy output) and I get no sound.
> However "aplay -l" still lists it.
> 
> I bisected the kernel and found 44cc74947ce02283e4967aa92988b90ec7c25dee is the
> first broken commit. It appears that 6cacf120de65f336d57bdfd41466b65ed1c569c6
> is a follow up commit fixing the problem and indeed v4.19.121 works fine (the
> regression is fixed).
> 
> Is it possible to update the package to a later stable release?

Yes, we work regularly for the point releases to rebase to latest
stable versions in the series, so I would expect this to see in 10.5
at latest.

Thanks for the bisecting work, I'm taking note to add a closer for
this bug when either picking up the commit or importing 4.19.121.

Regards,
Salvatore