Re: [PATCH] x86/defconfigs: enable HDA realtek codec

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Nov 16 2020 - 15:10:17 EST


On Sun, Nov 15 2020 at 18:22, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> I have lot of board booting with "hdaudio hdaudioC0D2: Unable to bind the codec".
> This is, for all of them, due to missing the HDA realtek codec.
>
> In fact CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK was already enabled via commit 5cb04df8d3f0 ("x86: defconfig updates")
> but removed later via commit 8b1bb90701f9 ("defconfig reduction")
>
> Anyway, one of those system is part of kernelCI and having
> CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK back will permit more testing.

Using an overlay to ensure that the bits which are needed by a
particular hardware is working just fine and even allows to do
randconfig testing.

Thanks,

tglx