Merge tag 'sound-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound

Pull sound updates from Takashi Iwai:
 "This time was again a relatively calm development cycle; most of
  updates are about drivers, and no radical changes are seen in any core
  code.  Here are some highlights:

  ALSA core:
   - Continued hardening of ALSA hrtimer
   - A few leak fixes in timer interface
   - Fix poll error handling in PCM and compress
   - Add error propagation in compress API
   - Removal of dead rtctimer driver

  HD-audio:
   - Native ELD notify support for i915 HDMI
   - Realtek ALC234 & co support
   - Code refactoring to standardize chmap support
   - Continued development for SKL HDMI core support

  Firewire:
   - Apply delayed card registration to all drivers
   - Improved / stabilized the handling of PCM stream start / stop
   - Add tracepoints to dump a part of isochronous packet data
   - Fixed incoming/outgoing packet parameter usages
   - Add support for M-Audio profire series

  USB-audio:
   - Fixes for UAC2 clock source
   - SS+ support
   - Workaround for oft-seen repeated sample rate read errors

  ASoC:
   - Further slow progress on the topology code
   - Substantial updates and improvements for the da7219, es8328,
     fsl-ssi, Intel and rcar drivers.
   - Compress error handling in WM ADSP driver"

* tag 'sound-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (177 commits)
  ALSA: firewire-lib: change a member of event structure to suppress sparse wanings to bool type
  sound: oss: Use setup_timer and mod_timer.
  ASoC: hdac_hdmi: Remove the unused 'timeout' variable
  ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix channel slipping on capture (or playback) restart in full duplex.
  ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix channel slipping in Playback at startup
  ASoC: fsl_ssi: Fix samples being dropped at Playback startup
  ASoC: fsl_ssi: Save a dev reference for dev_err() purpose.
  ASoC: fsl_ssi: The IPG/5 limitation concerns the bitclk, not the sysclk.
  ASoC: fsl_ssi: Real hardware channels max number is 32
  ASoC: pcm5102a: Add support for PCM5102A codec
  ASoC: hdac_hdmi: add link management
  ASoC: Intel: Skylake: add link management
  ALSA: hdac: add link pm and ref counting
  ALSA: au88x0: Fix zero clear of stream->resources
  ASoC: rt298: Add DMI match for Broxton-P reference platform
  ASoC: rt298: fix null deref on acpi driver data
  ASoC: dapm: deprecate MICBIAS widget type
  ALSA: firewire-lib: drop skip argument from helper functions to queue a packet
  ALSA: firewire-lib: add context information to tracepoints
  ALSA: firewire-lib: permit to flush queued packets only in process context for better PCM period granularity
  ...

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig b/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig
index bb02c2d..7f3b5ed 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/Kconfig
@@ -50,9 +50,13 @@ config SND_HDA_RECONFIG
 	bool "Allow dynamic codec reconfiguration"
 	help
 	  Say Y here to enable the HD-audio codec re-configuration feature.
-	  This adds the sysfs interfaces to allow user to clear the whole
-	  codec configuration, change the codec setup, add extra verbs,
-	  and re-configure the codec dynamically.
+	  It allows user to clear the whole codec configuration, change the
+	  codec setup, add extra verbs, and re-configure the codec dynamically.
+
+	  Note that this item alone doesn't provide the sysfs interface, but
+	  enables the feature just for the patch loader below.
+	  If you need the traditional sysfs entries for the manual interaction,
+	  turn on CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP as well.
 
 config SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP
 	bool "Support digital beep via input layer"