Commit 81302b1c authored by Takashi Iwai's avatar Takashi Iwai
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ALSA: hda: Fix unhandled register update during auto-suspend period

It's reported that the recording started right after the driver probe
doesn't work properly, and it turned out that this is related with the
codec auto-suspend.  Namely, after the probe phase, the usage count
goes zero, and the auto-suspend is programmed, but the codec is kept
still active until the auto-suspend expiration.  When an application
(e.g. alsactl) updates the mixer values at this moment, the values are
cached but not actually written.  Then, starting arecord thereafter
also results in the silence because of the missing unmute.

The root cause is the handling of "lazy update" mode; when a mixer
value is updated *after* the suspend, it should update only the cache
and exits.  At the resume, the cached value is written to the device,
in turn.  The problem is that the current code misinterprets the state
of auto-suspend as if it were already suspended.

Although we can add the check of the actual device state after
pm_runtime_get_...
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