regression in HDA functionality

[Kevin Downey]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Joel Dahl <joel at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Alexander Motin wrote:
>>
>> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>>  > With the old kernel it just works.
>>
>> Old kernel just was unable to support even a half of that what new one
>> can. There was no SPDIF/HDMI, was no multi codec and multi device support,
>> often was no recording.
>
> But basic stuff like speakers and plugging in headphones "just worked" with
> the old driver.  Your new driver may support much, much more features, but
> we've seen an alarming numbers of complaints about basic functionality being
> broken now (with the new driver).
>
> Oh, and I'm not trying to flame your work.  It's great that we have someone
> that takes care of this code, but I just can't help but think that this
> driver should have gone through a few more iterations of testing before
> entering the tree.
>
> --
> Joel

The new hda definitely makes basic functionality "just work" for me.
With the previous hda when I plugged headphones into my msi wind
laptop sound continued to play out of the speakers.


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