diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
index 24ea129969ae048810bf59472bea95d4d8da1c72..4d92a3e6952537157c5e9952e8d414b5d1e34cd6 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
@@ -924,6 +924,10 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed.
 	  vaio		Setup for VAIO FE550G/SZ110
 	  vaio-ar Setup for VAIO AR
 
+    The model name "genric" is treated as a special case.  When this
+    model is given, the driver uses the generic codec parser without
+    "codec-patch".  It's sometimes good for testing and debugging.
+
     If the default configuration doesn't work and one of the above
     matches with your device, report it together with the PCI
     subsystem ID (output of "lspci -nv") to ALSA BTS or alsa-devel
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
index 8f34fb4479837087b177c6f0c15d6eeb29caf300..4c0a6a5b20d986bb4b832b2158e9209c247fdb97 100644
--- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
+++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_codec.c
@@ -573,7 +573,8 @@ int snd_hda_codec_new(struct hda_bus *bus, unsigned int codec_addr,
 							 0);
 	}
 
-	codec->preset = find_codec_preset(codec);
+	if (strcmp(codec->bus->modelname, "generic"))
+		codec->preset = find_codec_preset(codec);
 	if (! *bus->card->mixername)
 		snd_hda_get_codec_name(codec, bus->card->mixername,
 				       sizeof(bus->card->mixername));