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



On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 09:55 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > 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..

That fixes the DW_DMAC dependency, but we also have some drivers
selecting SND_SST_IPC_ACPI and others (including this one) depending
on SND_SST_IPC_ACPI=n.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had
thought.
... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to
be spent
in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice Wilkes, 1949

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