Comment 96 for bug 886975

At Wed, 09 Jan 2013 09:36:24 +0100,
David Henningsson wrote:
>
> On 01/04/2013 09:49 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:04:15 +0100,
> > David Henningsson wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/19/2012 11:38 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>> At Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:34:46 +0100,
> >>> David Henningsson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 12/19/2012 11:24 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>>>> At Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:44:47 +0100,
> >>>>> David Henningsson wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This reverts commit 697c373e34613609cb5450f98b91fefb6e910588.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The original patch was meant to remove clicking, but in fact caused even
> >>>>>> more clicking instead.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Thanks to c4pp4 for doing most of the work with this bug.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886975
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <email address hidden>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> @c4pp4: Is this consistent with what you have done to reduce the clicking?
> >>>>>> Will you recommend upstream Linux to take the patch below?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So, it shouldn't be merged yet right now?
> >>>>> Now is the last chance for merging it to 3.8-rc1.
> >>>>
> >>>> If we don't have time waiting for c4pp4's confirmation without missing
> >>>> the entire 3.8 cycle, then I think we should merge it.
> >>>
> >>> It's no new feature, so it's fine to merge it at any time during 3.8
> >>> cycle, even after 3.8-rc1.
> >>>
> >>> But such a fix should be merged with Cc to stable, so a bit more tests
> >>> would be better.
> >>
> >> Do you have a suggestion on how that should be tested? I have no
> >> conexant machines here currently.
> >
> > Well, at best, test 3.8-rc2 with the patch. The content isn't too
> > intrusive so it should suffice for merge. Alternatively, the tester
> > can try older kernel with the same patch.
> >
> > The point is to confirm that the patch really works.
>
> This has now been confirmed by c4pp4. Please commit the patch.

OK, applied now.

Takashi