Bug#832458: linux-image-4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64: Please enable SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_MAX98090_MACH, needed for some Baytrail devices

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>]

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
> On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 13:10 -0600, Ivan M wrote:
>> Package: src:linux
>> Version: 4.6.3-1~bpo8+1
>> Severity: normal
>> 
>> Dear Maintainer,
>> 
>> Please enable CONFIG_SND_SOC_INTEL_BYT_MAX98090_MACH=m - it is
>> necessary for audio on certain Baytrail hardware.
>> 
>> (I note that it is also necessary to set CONFIG_DW_DMAC=y (not m) for
>> this, although I don't understand why.)
>
> This is an upstream regression.  It is simply not possible to select
> all the Intel SoC sound drivers any more.  It seems that some
> developers don't care to support a generic distribution configuration.

I believe that is supposed to be fixed by commit a395bdd6b24b ("ASoC:
intel: Fix sst-dsp dependency on dw stuff"), but I haven't verified it.

Looks like it's destined for v4.8 and not yet backported to any stable
kernel, though. Which is a bit odd given the "Fixes" tag..



Bjørn