linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 07/83] ASoC: Fail card instantiation if DAI format setup fails

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Date:   Wed, 4 Sep 2019 20:05:35 +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 4.9 07/83] ASoC: Fail card instantiation if DAI format
 setup fails

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 08:35:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 07:10:27PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > 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.

> This is already in the 4.14.141, 4.19.69, and 5.2.11 releases, have you
> heard any problems there?

Ugh, how did that happen?  I've not heard any reports but I'd be a lot
more comfortable if this was reverted, these releases haven't been out
that long and the users who'd be affected are mostly doing embedded
stuff.

> I'll be glad to drop this from the 4.9.y and 4.4.y queues, now if you
> wish, but just want you to know it's already out there in some releases.

Yes, please.

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