linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.11 229/233] ALSA: hda - hdmi: introduce patch

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Date:	Fri, 7 Feb 2014 16:40:36 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
Cc:	Levente Kurusa <levex@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com,
	Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@....fi>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.11 229/233] ALSA: hda - hdmi: introduce patch_nvhdmi()

On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 09:20:57AM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 02/07/2014 07:36 AM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:58:47PM +0100, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On 02/07/2014 12:47 PM, Luis Henriques wrote:
> >>> 3.11.10.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >>>  [...]
> >>>  
> >>> +static int patch_nvhdmi(struct hda_codec *codec)
> >>> +{
> >>> +	struct hdmi_spec *spec;
> >>> +	int err;
> >>> +
> >>> +	err = patch_generic_hdmi(codec);
> >>> +	if (err)
> >>> +		return err;
> >>> +
> >>> +	spec = codec->spec;
> >>> +
> >>> +	return 0;
> >>> +}
> >>> [...]
> >>
> >> Is it just me or is it that the 'spec' variable has no use?
> > 
> > This does seem a little bit odd indeed.  I've picked the backport provided
> > by Stephen, which has been queued for the 3.10 and 3.12 stable kernels as
> > well.  The original patch actually modifies the ops field in the hdmi_spec
> > struct, however this field doesn't exist in this kernel version.
> > 
> > Stephen, could you please comment?  Since this is just a partial backport
> > of 611885bc963a ("ALSA: hda - hdmi: Disallow unsupported 2ch remapping on
> > NVIDIA codecs"), I'm assuming this is correct -- although the spec
> > variable could have been dropped.
> 
> The very next patch of mine to this file (in other stable releases)
> makes use of the spec variable. I kept the addition of the spec variable
> in this patch, even though it isn't used until the next patch, so that
> it stayed as part of the backport of this patch which originally added
> it, rather than moving it to the other patch I backported, and hence
> mixing up multiple upstream patches in the same backported patch.

Doh!  I've applied both of your two patches to the 3.11 kernel.  And while
I first reviewed them, I've seen that detail and it made perfect sense ;)

Anyway, thank you for your clarification.

Cheers,
--
Luis
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