This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: alsa-hda-degrade-i915-binding-failure-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From bed2e98e1f4db8b827df507abc30be7b11b0613d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 15:00:26 +0100 Subject: ALSA: hda - Degrade i915 binding failure message

From: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de

commit bed2e98e1f4db8b827df507abc30be7b11b0613d upstream.

Currently HD-audio driver on Intel Skylake or Broxteon gives an error message when binding with i915 audio component fails. However, this isn't any serious error on a system without Intel graphics. Indeed there are such systems, where a third-party codec (e.g. Creative) is put on the mobo while using other discrete GPU (e.g. Nvidia). Printing a kernel "error" message is overreaction in such a case.

This patch downgrades the print level for that message. For systems that mandate the i915 binding (e.g. Haswell or Broadwell HDMI/DP), another kernel error message is shown in addition to make clear what went wrong.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111021 Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai tiwai@suse.de Cc: Kouta Okamoto kouta.okamoto@toshiba.co.jp Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- sound/hda/hdac_i915.c | 2 +- sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c +++ b/sound/hda/hdac_i915.c @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ out_master_del: out_err: kfree(acomp); bus->audio_component = NULL; - dev_err(dev, "failed to add i915 component master (%d)\n", ret); + dev_info(dev, "failed to add i915 component master (%d)\n", ret);

return ret; } --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c @@ -2088,9 +2088,11 @@ static int azx_probe_continue(struct azx * for other chips, still continue probing as other * codecs can be on the same link. */ - if (CONTROLLER_IN_GPU(pci)) + if (CONTROLLER_IN_GPU(pci)) { + dev_err(chip->card->dev, + "HSW/BDW HD-audio HDMI/DP requires binding with gfx driver\n"); goto out_free; - else + } else goto skip_i915; }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tiwai@suse.de are

queue-4.4/alsa-hda-degrade-i915-binding-failure-message.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-add-support-for-docking-station-for-hp-820-g2.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-enable-audio-component-for-old-intel-pch-devices.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-add-support-for-docking-station-for-hp-840-g3.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-clear-the-leftover-component-assignment-at-snd_hdac_i915_exit.patch queue-4.4/alsa-hda-fix-yet-another-i915-pointer-leftover-in-error-path.patch