Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:10:24 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc7, intel audio: alsa doesn't say a beep
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* Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> > The only difference between rc6 and rc7 in sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c is
> > this:
> > 
> > diff -ur linux-2.6.24-rc6/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c linux-2.6.24-rc7/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
> > --- linux-2.6.24-rc6/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c	2007-12-21 02:25:48.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux-2.6.24-rc7/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c	2008-01-06 22:45:38.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -555,7 +555,8 @@
> >   		}
> >   		if (!chip->rirb.cmds)
> >   			return chip->rirb.res; /* the last value */
> > -		schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
> > +		udelay(10);
> > +		cond_resched();
> >   	} while (time_after_eq(timeout, jiffies));
> > 
> >   	if (chip->msi) {
> > 
> > 
> > Do you think this could be related to the problem?
> 
> Could you revert it and check whether the problem still exists?
> 
> I hardly believe it's the culprit, but if this is the only change in
> the sound subsystem...

lets revert it (commit 57a04513cb3) if it's causing problems. This patch 
sat in -mm for quite some time - so it seems -rc7 is getting pretty good 
test coverage.

	Ingo
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