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-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
index 850b1b3956a..caa3ec655ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio.txt
@@ -447,7 +447,10 @@ The file needs to have a line `[codec]`. The next line should contain
three numbers indicating the codec vendor-id (0x12345678 in the
example), the codec subsystem-id (0xabcd1234) and the address (2) of
the codec. The rest patch entries are applied to this specified codec
-until another codec entry is given.
+until another codec entry is given. Passing 0 or a negative number to
+the first or the second value will make the check of the corresponding
+field be skipped. It'll be useful for really broken devices that don't
+initialize SSID properly.
The `[model]` line allows to change the model name of the each codec.
In the example above, it will be changed to model=auto.