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    ALSA: x86: hdmi: Add single_port option for compatible behavior · 7229b12f
    Takashi Iwai authored
    The recent support for the multiple PCM devices allowed user to use
    multiple HDMI/DP outputs, but at the same time, the PCM stream
    assignment has been changed, too.  Due to that, the former PCM#0
    (there was only one stream in the past) is likely assigned to a
    different one (e.g. PCM#2), and it ends up with the regression when
    user sticks with the fixed configuration using the device#0.
    
    Although the multiple monitor support shouldn't matter when user
    deploys the backend like PulseAudio that checks the jack detection
    state, the behavior change isn't always acceptable for some users.
    
    As a mitigation, this patch introduces an option to switch the
    behavior back to the old-good-days: when the new option,
    single_port=1, is passed, the driver creates only a single PCM device,
    and it's assigned to the first connected one, like the earlier
    versions did.  The option is turned off as default still to support
    the multiple monitors.
    
    Fixes: 8a2d6ae1
    
     ("ALSA: x86: Register multiple PCM devices for the LPE audio card")
    Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarHubert Mantel <mantel@metadox.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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