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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt4
-rw-r--r--sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
index 24ea129969a..4d92a3e6952 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
@@ -924,6 +924,10 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed.
vaio Setup for VAIO FE550G/SZ110
vaio-ar Setup for VAIO AR
+ The model name "genric" is treated as a special case. When this
+ model is given, the driver uses the generic codec parser without
+ "codec-patch". It's sometimes good for testing and debugging.
+
If the default configuration doesn't work and one of the above
matches with your device, report it together with the PCI
subsystem ID (output of "lspci -nv") to ALSA BTS or alsa-devel
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
index 8f34fb44798..4c0a6a5b20d 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
@@ -573,7 +573,8 @@ int snd_hda_codec_new(struct hda_bus *bus, unsigned int codec_addr,
0);
}
- codec->preset = find_codec_preset(codec);
+ if (strcmp(codec->bus->modelname, "generic"))
+ codec->preset = find_codec_preset(codec);
if (! *bus->card->mixername)
snd_hda_get_codec_name(codec, bus->card->mixername,
sizeof(bus->card->mixername));