diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
index 24ea129..4d92a3e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt
@@ -924,6 +924,10 @@
 	  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