Takashi Iwai [Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:11:48 +0000 (11:11 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Remove the last static quirks for ALC882
Resitance is futile. The remaining static model quirks for Apple
machines with ALC882-compatible codecs are converted to the auto-parser
now. We can remove all alc*_quirks.c finally.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:20:42 +0000 (18:20 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Drop all ALC880 static quirks
Finally the all static quirks for ALC880 are converted to the
auto-parser. Since we are never sure whether the BIOS on so many old
machines are really correct, the quirk table entries are copied as
they are, but just providing the proper pin-config values
accordingly.
Since alc880_quirks.c is removed, alc882_quirks.c has to be adjusted
slightly to be built again. There might be some compile warnings due
to the remaining alc882 quirks, but these shall be killed sooner or
later, I don't care it much at this point.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:56:57 +0000 (17:56 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Drop model=asus* from ALC880
It turned out that BIOS on most of ASUS mobo's set the pin-config tables
reasonably well for the auto-parser. We'd need GPIO setups, but should
work as is other than that.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:41:51 +0000 (17:41 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Rewrite ALC880 model=z71v with auto-parser
ASUS Z71V has a totally broken BIOS setup (at least the info I got),
thus we need to override the whole pin-config table to make the
auto-parser working correctly.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:20:48 +0000 (17:20 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Rewrite ALC880 model=uniwill with auto-parser
The model=uniwill would work almost as is, but a couple of adjustments
are needed to make the mutli-io working correctly. The headphone and
speaker pins have to be marked properly in pin configs.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:36:52 +0000 (16:36 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Rewrite ALC880 model=F1734 with auto-parser
Similar as the previous patch for model=fujitsu, we can now move the
static quirk for F1734 to the auto-parser. The only difference is the
default pin configurations: F1734 has less pins than Amilo's.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:47:55 +0000 (15:47 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Apply probe-fixup really after probing
Move the call of alc_apply_fixup() with ALC_FIXUP_ACT_PROBE after the
whole setups of patch_ops & co, so that the fix-up function may override
the default setup. This will be needed for installing the own unsol
event handler (e.g. for volume-knob controls).
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:33:56 +0000 (16:33 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Rewrite ALC880 model=w810 with auto-parser
The Medion W810 with ALC880 has a typical BIOS bug, copying the
pin-defaults without disabling the unused pins. At least, the pin
0x17 must be disabled. Also, it requires GPIO-2 setup.
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:18:59 +0000 (16:18 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Rewrite ALC880 model=lg with the auto-parser
ALC880 model=lg could work fine with the auto-parser due to the recent
rewrite, but it still needs the manual adjustment; namely, the BIOS leaves
unused pins as some real active jacks. This confuses the parser.
Thus we just cover these pins and override the pin-configs as a fix-up.
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:17:03 +0000 (16:17 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Adjust badness calculation for multi-ios
Try harder to fit the multi-io pins also by checking the hard-wired
connections for multi-ios. Also, the badness values are adjusted to
prioritize the multi-ios as more valuable. These changes will enable
the multi-io on some machines without losing the current capability.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:39:45 +0000 (18:39 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Try harder to fit the single-connections
So far, the Realtek driver tires to assign the single-connected routes
for all pins only once at the beginning. However, since some DACs have
been already mapped, the rest pins might have also single conections.
In this patch, the driver does the single-connection assignment in a
loop until all possbile single-connections are checked. This will
improve the DAC assignment, e.g. for ASUS G72.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:45:59 +0000 (16:45 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Finer tuning of auto-parser with badness evaluation
This patch improves the Realtek auto-parser for assigning the DACs and
mixers in more suitable ways by evaluating the assignment with "badness"
calculations.
When assigning a DAC hinders the assignment of individual DACs for
other pins, some badness point is given. Similarly, when it blocks the
assignment of unique mixer controls, another badness point is added.
Also, if no DAC, even shared DAC, can be assigned, more badness is
pointed. Finally, comparing the accumulated badness, the best route is
chosen among several trials.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:23:46 +0000 (17:23 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Improve the signel-connection check
When the connections from the pin selector contain only two
widgets, a route to DAC and the aa-mixer, it's certainly a
single connection. In such a case, get_dac_if_single() should
return the connected DAC, too.
This will improve the detection of the individual DAC
assignment for each pin.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:38:07 +0000 (16:38 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix overflow of vol/sw check bitmap
The bitmap introduced in the commit [527e4d73: ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix
missing volume controls with ALC260] is too narrow for some codecs,
which may have more NIDs than 0x20, thus it may overflow the bitmap
array on them.
Just double the number to cover all and also add a sanity-check code
to be safer.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:03:18 +0000 (13:03 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Disable static fixups for ASUS with ALC269
We've enabled the static fixups for ASUS machines with ALC269 codec,
just for making things compatible during the transition to the auto-
parser. However, it seems that the static configurations do more harmful
than good, as some of entries don't match with the actual hardware setups.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:59:55 +0000 (12:59 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Remove leftover static quirks for ALC260
Now we can clean up all static quirks for ALC260.
Also many codes in alc_quirks.c can be ripped off since they have been
used only by ALC260 static quirks.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:35:16 +0000 (12:35 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Replace ALC260 model=replacer with the auto-parser
The support for Replacer 627V in the auto-parser needs the unique unsol
event handling: although the machine has a single output pin 0x0f, it's
used for both the headphone and the speaker, and the driver needs to
toggle the output route via GPIO 1.
In addition, it needs a special COEF setup with 0x3050.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:51:19 +0000 (11:51 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Add the fixup codes for ALC260 model=will
The model=will for ALC260 requires the pin 0x0f to be a headphone and
some special verbs for the COEF to turn on the amp. Now added these as
fixup entries and removed the static model quirk.
Xi Wang [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:18:48 +0000 (05:18 -0500)]
ALSA: usb-audio: avoid integer overflow in create_fixed_stream_quirk()
A malicious USB device could feed in a large nr_rates value. This would
cause the subsequent call to kmemdup() to allocate a smaller buffer than
expected, leading to out-of-bounds access.
This patch validates the nr_rates value and reuses the limit introduced
in commit 4fa0e81b ("ALSA: usb-audio: fix possible hang and overflow
in parse_uac2_sample_rate_range()").
Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Daniel T Chen [Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:44:22 +0000 (23:44 -0500)]
ALSA: intel8x0: Fix default inaudible sound on Gateway M520
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930842
The reporter states that audio is inaudible by default without muting
'External Amplifier'. Add a quirk to handle his SSID so that changing
the control is not necessary.
Reported-and-tested-by: Benjamin Carlson <elderbubba0810@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel T Chen <crimsun@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Since 3.2 kernel, the driver starts trying to assign the multi-io DACs
before the speaker, thus it assigns DAC2/3 for multi-io and DAC4 for
the speaker for a standard laptop setup like a HP, a speaker, a mic-in
and a line-in. However, on Acer Aspire 6935, it seems that the
speaker pin 0x14 must be connected with either DAC1 or 2; otherwise it
results in silence by some reason, although the codec itself allows
the routing to DAC3/4.
As a workaround, the connection list of each pin is reduced to be
mapped to either only DAC1/2 or DAC3/4, so that the compatible
assignment as in kernel 3.1 is achieved.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:04:06 +0000 (15:04 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Fix initialization of secondary capture source on VT1705
VT1705 codec has two ADCs where the secondary ADC has no MUX but only
a fixed connection to the mic pin. This confused the driver and it
tries always overriding the input-source selection by assumption of
the existing MUX for the secondary ADC, resulted in resetting the
input-source at each time PM (including power-saving) occurs.
The fix is simply to check the existence of MUX for secondary ADCs in
the initialization code.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:56:25 +0000 (11:56 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Suppress auto-mute feature on some machines with ALC861
A few machines with ALC861 & co are reported not to work properly with
the auto-mute feature in software. The auto-mute feature is implemented
in the hardware level, and the jack-detection never works with them.
Also, rename the fixup index as ALC861_FIXUP_* to follow the standard.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:55:02 +0000 (11:55 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Add codec->no_jack_detect flag
Add a new flag to indicate that the codec has no jack-detection cap.
This flag should be set for hardwares that have no jack-detect
implementation although the codec chip itself supports it.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 9 Feb 2012 08:32:19 +0000 (09:32 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Fix mute-LED VREF value for new HP laptops
The new HP laptops turns off the mute LED with VREF50 or VREF80, but
not in HIZ unlike the previous models. Since VREF50 (also 80) works
with the previous models, let's use VREF50 for all.
Takashi Iwai [Wed, 8 Feb 2012 20:29:38 +0000 (21:29 +0100)]
Merge tag 'asoc-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus
A few small WM8994 updates to go on top of the previous lot of things
that were sent. They collide with some -next work so I'd really like to
get them into 3.3-rc3 if possible to merge back up into the -next code.
All driver specific and unexciting in the grand scheme of things.
Clemens Ladisch [Sat, 4 Feb 2012 19:56:47 +0000 (20:56 +0100)]
ALSA: oxygen, virtuoso: fix exchanged L/R volumes of aux and CD inputs
The driver accidentally exchanged the left/right fields for stereo AC'97
mixer registers. This affected only the aux and CD inputs because the
line input bypasses the AC'97 codec and the mic input is mono; cards
without AC'97 (Xonar DS/DG/HDAV Slim, HG2PCI, HiFier) were not affected.
Reported-and-tested-by: Abby Cedar <abbycedar@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: 2.6.31+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Takashi Iwai [Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:00:53 +0000 (11:00 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Fix error handling in patch_ca0132.c
In patch_ca0132.c, the error returned from chipio_write() isn't checked
always. Also, the power-up/down sequence isn't tracked properly in some
error paths.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Takashi Iwai [Tue, 7 Feb 2012 10:04:48 +0000 (11:04 +0100)]
Merge tag 'asoc-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into for-linus
The only particularly remarkable change here is the one for handling of
the Android suspend ignore code for idle_bias_off CODECs. That one is
actually a regression fix as some of the new power savings that have
been introduced confused the suspend ignore code, making devices that
are active for non-audio reasons look like they are idle causing them to
be suspended instead of being kept active.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 6 Feb 2012 09:24:04 +0000 (10:24 +0100)]
ALSA: hda/realtek - Fix a wrong condition
sparse complains that "spec->multiout.dac_nids" is a pointer.
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c:2321:37: error: incompatible types for operation (>)
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c:2321:37: left side has type unsigned short const [usertype] *dac_nids
sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c:2321:37: right side has type int
It was meant to be num_dacs instead of dac_nids.
Although the current code still works as expected (when num_dacs is zero,
dac_nids should be NULL, too), better to fix now, of course.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Takashi Iwai [Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:28:01 +0000 (14:28 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Add suffix argument to snd_hda_add_vmaster()
In most cases, the slave strings for vmaster are identical between
volumes and switches except for "xxx Volume" and "xxx Switch" suffix.
Now snd_hda_add_vmaster() takes the optional suffix argument so that
each string can be composed with the given suffix, and we can share the
slave name strings in both volume and switch calls nicely.
Takashi Iwai [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:54:19 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Enable sync_write and reset for Conexant codecs
This is an attempt to fix S3-resume problems reported for a few
laptops with different Conexant codecs. They show the communication
stalls at some time in S3, and the driver falls back into the
single-cmd mode. This leads to the silent output or the lack of
auto-mute feature.
As a workaround, here enables the sync_write and the bus-reset flags
to make the communication more stable.
Takashi Iwai [Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:33:23 +0000 (10:33 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Allow analog low-current mode when dynamic power-control is on
VIA codecs have several different power-saving features, and one of
them is the analog low-current mode. But it turned out that the ALC
mode causes pop-noises at each on/off time on some machines. As a
quick workaround, disable the ALC when another power-saving feature,
the dynamic pin power-control, is turned off, too, since the dynamic
power-control is already exposed as a mixer enum element so that user
can turn it on/off freely.
Takashi Iwai [Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:25:50 +0000 (12:25 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Check power-state before changing in patch_via.c
Instead of always writing AC_VERB_SET_POWER_STATE, check the current
power-state and don't write again if the value is already set.
This may reduce the click noise upon the dynamic power-state change
(e.g. in analog-input mixer).
For master mode, set Output [X|A|V]SP_SCLK Sourcing Mode to MCLK Mode.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Brian Austin <brian.austin@cirrus.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Dylan Reid [Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:04:41 +0000 (13:04 -0800)]
ALSA: hda - Fix calling cs_automic twice for Cirrus codecs.
If cs_automic is called twice (like it is during init) while the mic
is present, it will over-write the last_input with the new one,
causing it to switch back to the automic input when the mic is
unplugged. This leaves the driver in a state (cur_input, last_input,
and automix_idx the same) where the internal mic can not be selected
until it is rebooted without the mic attached.
Check that the mic hasn't already been switched to before setting
last_input.
Mark Brown [Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:49:10 +0000 (15:49 +0000)]
ASoC: core: Better support for idle_bias_off suspend ignores
If an idle_bias_off device is in any state other than off then it is still
active for some reason (typically a low power function such as accessory
detection). This wasn't an issue when the feature was implemented as we
always went to _ON for any active function, subsequent power improvements
have changed things.
With the modern way of doing things we should overhaul the infrastructure
to allow devices to explicitly take references for these functions but
that's a much more invasive change and will require driver updates to
deploy, this will bring the framework into line with the existing driver
set before we do that work.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
The user reports that model=auto works better than current handling
on a 3.2 based kernel (with jack detection patches backported).
Since model=auto is what we prefer these days anyway, the quirk
should be removed.
Alsa-info for the relevant machine:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/923316/+attachment/2702812/+files/alsa-info.txt.Pbfno2x7bp
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923316 Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
ALSA: HDA: Fix jack creation for codecs with front and rear Line In
If a codec has both a front and a rear Line In, two controls both
named "Line Jack" will be created, which causes parsing to fail.
While a long term solution might be to name the jacks differently,
this extra check is consistent with what is already being done in many
auto-parsers, and will also protect against other cases when two
inputs have the same label.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923409 Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:54:08 +0000 (10:54 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Apply 0x0f-VREF fix to all ASUS laptops with ALC861/660
It turned out that other ASUS laptops require the similar fix to
enable the VREF on the pin 0x0f for the secret output amp, not only
ASUS A6Rp. Moreover, it's required even when the pin is being used
as the output. Thus, writing a fixed value doesn't work always.
This patch applies the VREF-fix for all ASUS laptops with ALC861/660
in a fixup function that checks the current value and turns on only
the VREF value no matter whether input or output direction is set.
The automute function is modified as well to keep the pin VREF upon
muting/unmuting via pin-control; otherwise the pin VREF is reset at
plugging/unplugging a jack.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:25:05 +0000 (15:25 +0100)]
Merge tag 'asoc-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/sound into fix/asoc
A bunch of small driver specific fixes - nothing terribly exciting here,
all of this will only affect people using particular devices and then
usually only in some use cases.
ASoC: neo1973_wm8753: remove references to the neo1973-gta01 machine
The Openmoko GTA01 machine has been removed from the machine ID database,
so we need to remove references to it as well.
Without that fix we have:
sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c: In function ‘neo1973_wm8753_init’:
sound/soc/samsung/neo1973_wm8753.c:325:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘machine_is_neo1973_gta01’
Signed-off-by: Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@no-log.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Axel Lin [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:10:58 +0000 (17:10 +0800)]
ALSA: Add #ifdef CONFIG_PCI guard for snd_pci_quirk_* functions
This fixes below build warning when CONFIG_PCI is not set.
CC sound/sound_core.o
In file included from sound/sound_core.c:15:
include/sound/core.h:454: warning: 'struct pci_dev' declared inside parameter list
include/sound/core.h:454: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
The user reports that he needs to add model=auto for audio to
work properly. In fact, since node 0x15 is not even a pin node,
the existing fixup is definitely wrong. Relevant information can
be found in the buglink below.
Takashi Iwai [Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:56:16 +0000 (15:56 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Fix silent output on Haier W18 laptop
The very same problem is seen on Haier W18 laptop with ALC861 as seen
on ASUS A6Rp, which was fixed by the commit 3b25eb69.
Now we just need to add a new SSID entry pointing to the same fixup.
Mark Brown [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:19:20 +0000 (15:19 +0000)]
ASoC: wm5100: Make sure we switch to button reporting mode
When we have identified an accessory make sure we've flagged that we've
done so in order to make sure we always report buttons and don't continue
to polarity flip.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
ALSA: hda: set mute led polarity for laptops with buggy BIOS based on SSID
HP laptop models with buggy BIOS are apparently frequent, including
machines with different codecs. Set the polarity of the mute led based
on the SSID and include an entry for the HP Mini 110-3100.
Takashi Iwai [Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:55:46 +0000 (09:55 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Fix silent output on ASUS A6Rp
The refactoring of Realtek codec driver in 3.2 kernel caused a
regression for ASUS A6Rp laptop; it doesn't give any output.
The reason was that this machine has a secret master mute (or EAPD)
control via NID 0x0f VREF. Setting VREF50 on this node makes the
sound working again.
Raymond Yau [Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:41:47 +0000 (11:41 +0800)]
ALSA: ymfpci - Don't create invalid PCM & mixers when AC97 doesn't support
- check SDAC bit of AC97 primary codec when create "rear" device 3,
"4ch" device 2 and "4ch Duplication" switch as the card need a four channels
AC97 codec to support surround40.
Signed-off-by: Raymond Yau <superquad.vortex2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Jesper Juhl [Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:28:44 +0000 (22:28 +0100)]
ASoC: wm2000: Fix use-after-free - don't release_firmware() twice on error
In wm2000_i2c_probe(), if we take the true branch in
"
ret = snd_soc_register_codec(&i2c->dev, &soc_codec_dev_wm2000,
NULL, 0);
if (ret != 0)
goto err_fw;
"
then we'll release_firmware(fw) at the 'err_fw' label. But we've already
done that just a few lines above. That's a use-after-free bug.
This patch restructures the code so that we always call
release_firmware(fw) before leaving the function, but only ever call
it once.
This means that we have to initialize 'fw' to NULL since some paths
may now end up calling it without having called request_firmware(),
but since request_firmware() deals gracefully with NULL pointers, we
are fine if we just NULL initialize it.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:23:36 +0000 (18:23 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - Fix silent outputs from docking-station jacks of Dell laptops
The recent change of the power-widget handling for IDT codecs caused
the silent output from the docking-station line-out jack. This was
partially fixed by the commit f2cbba7602383cd9cdd21f0a5d0b8bd1aad47b33
"ALSA: hda - Fix the lost power-setup of seconary pins after PM resume".
But the line-out on the docking-station is still silent when booted
with the jack plugged even by this fix.
The remainig bug is that the power-widget is set off in stac92xx_init()
because the pins in cfg->line_out_pins[] aren't checked there properly
but only hp_pins[] are checked in is_nid_hp_pin().
This patch fixes the problem by checking both HP and line-out pins
and leaving the power-map correctly.
Takashi Iwai [Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:53:39 +0000 (17:53 +0100)]
ALSA: hda - explicitly set buffer-align flag for Nvidia controllers
It turned out that Nvidial (HDMI) controllers require the buffer
alignment. Thus it's better to mark it requiring the alignment, so that
we can switch to non-aligned behavior as default in future.
Also, change the module paramter to be bint, in order to let user
overriding the default value.