Garrett,
the part about reverting and patching was actually meant for Peter.

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Peter,

It sounds like Takashi Iwai (comment #23)
is looking to go another direction to fix the problem with the kernel commit
(7546abfb8e1f9933b549f05898377e9444ee4cb2), as opposed to just patching it.

hopefully he can shed more light on this subject...

as I said. the patch works... but also reverting the commit on the original
kernel also works.