After installing and booting the new kernel kernel-2.6.42.7-1.fc15.i686 the volume control and the switch disaperd from alsamixer and there is no sound in analog cd playpack (and in my case from a saa7134 bases TV card). When booting with the old kerne-2.6.41.10-3.fc15.i686 everything is ok. I don'l know about the intermediate kernel-2.6.42.3-2.fc15.i686
Same problem with kernel-3.2.5-3.fc16.x86_64 and after on the same machine, but if I remamber correctly things worked after install.
Attached is the output of alsa-info in the two cases.

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alsa-info.kernel-2.6.41.10-3.fc15.txt
alsa-info.kernel-2.6.42.7-1.fc15.txt