I noticed that somewhere between 4.1-rc4 and 4.1 final my microphone input quit working on this machine, and that no capture controls appeared in alsamixer. Reverting this commit gets them back: commit 8b99aba70c5f581860736855e211cf981f438ad2 Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Date: Mon Jun 15 11:59:32 2015 +0200 ALSA: hda - Fix audio crackles on Dell Latitude E7x40
Sorry, wrong commit. It was this one: commit 82d6d8a4034a7480d582791763c89c328c2a8f0c Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Date: Mon Jun 15 20:36:12 2015 +0200 ALSA: hda - Fix noisy outputs on Dell XPS13 (2015 model)
This has been already fixed in 4.2-rc1 by commit 831bfdf9520e389357cfeee42a6174a73ce7bdb7. The backport to stable kernel is still being processed due to too many queued patches.