Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add Audient EVO4 support

[Christian Ruppert]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 03:21:25PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:18:37 +0200,
> Christian Ruppert wrote:
> > 
> > This patch set adds support for advanced mixer features of the Audient
> > EVO4 audio interface. The code is structured so that support for the
> > EVO8 (and potentially other Audient devices) should be trivial to add
> > but I don't have access to the hardware and no way of testing them so
> > they are not supported by this patch set.
> > 
> > The third patch in the series (Add Kconfig option for Audient EVO4 mixer
> > quirks) is optional. Other mixer quirks are compiled in by default and
> > don't provide Kconfig options but as this one adds a few hundred lines
> > of code I decided to provide this last patch as an option and leave the
> > choice if such an option should be added to the subsystem maintainers.
> > 
> > Christian Ruppert (3):
> >   Fix Audient EVO4 master playback control name
> >   Add Audient EVO4 mixer quirks
> >   Add Kconfig option for Audient EVO4 mixer quirks
> 
> I merged the two, but dropped the Kconfig patch.
> 
> We have no Kconfig for other mixer stuff, and most likely the users
> will enable simply all mixer supported devices.
> 
> It might make sense to introduce a Kconfig if we build each vendor
> mixer stuff as an individual module, though.  Until then, let's try
> to reduce Kconfig.

Thanks, makes perfect sense. Thanks to Faaris for testing everything!

> BTW, do you see an issue Faaris reported for the recent kernel?

This situation is actually more subtle than I originally thought, I
replied to this in the other thread here:
https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/arwVedydsKxSgpho@khmer.arcnet/

Christian