Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:29:25 +0100 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] snd-es1968: remove pm_whitelist |
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At Thu, 1 Nov 2012 22:58:30 +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > > On Thursday 01 November 2012 22:29:43 Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 21:55:54 +0100 > > > > Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> wrote: > > > pm_whitelist breaks suspend on all non-whitelisted cards for unknown > > > purpose. Remove it. This fixes suspend on Terratec DMX and SF64-PCE2 > > > cards. > > > > Because lots of them broke laptops. > > > > Why not just whitelist the ones you know works, given there are ones we > > know doesn't so your patch is an instant regression guarantee ? > > > > (and yes a blacklist might have been brighter but I don't know the > > history and it's a bit late to fix) > > I wonder what does the suspend/resume code break? Currently, all > non-whitelisted cards are broken (not working after resume).
You can't expect anything logical with the broken ACPI support on such old hardware :)
> The problem with adding cards to the whitelist is that Terratec DMX has > generic subsystem ID: > ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E [125d:1978] (rev 10) > Subsystem: ESS Technology ES1978 Maestro 2E [125d:1978] > > Adding this to the whitelist does not look like a good idea...
But better than possibly breaking all units without testing.
The fact that the device contains only the ES1978 SSID implies that it's a PCI sound card, not an on-board device. Thus the possibility to regress for such a case is fairly low. The concern is basically only for the onboard sound devices on old laptops.
thanks,
Takashi
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