linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.4 06/77] ASoC: Fail card instantiation if DAI format setup fails

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Date:   Wed, 4 Sep 2019 19:09:52 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Ricard Wanderlof <ricardw@...s.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 06/77] ASoC: Fail card instantiation if DAI format
 setup fails

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 07:52:53PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> [ Upstream commit 40aa5383e393d72f6aa3943a4e7b1aae25a1e43b ]
> 
> If the DAI format setup fails, there is no valid communication format
> between CPU and CODEC, so fail card instantiation, rather than continue
> with a card that will most likely not function properly.

I nacked this patch when Sasha posted it - it only improves diagnostics
and might make systems that worked by accident break since it turns
things into a hard failure, it won't make anything that didn't work
previously work.

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