This reverts commit 57a04513cb.
Harald Dunkel reports that it broke sound for him:
"Alsa stopped working for me. I still can access /dev/dsp, change the
volume and so on, but the speakers are quiet."
Reverting it fixed things for him.
Reported-and-tested-by: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>