linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.7 004/388] ASoC: tegra: tegra

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jun 2020 08:31:18 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.7 004/388] ASoC: tegra: tegra_wm8903: Support
 nvidia, headset property

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 07:33:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 03:39:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:30:46AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:00:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> > > > This is a new feature not a bugfix.
>
>> > > I saw this patch more as a hardware quirk.
>
>> > Pretty much any DT property is a hardware quirk :(
>
>> Which is why we're taking most of them :)
>
>That's concerning - please don't do this.  It's not what stable is
>expected to be and there's no guarantee that you're getting all the
>changes required to actually make things work.

How come? This is one of the things stable rules explicitly call for:
"New device IDs and quirks are also accepted".

If we're missing anything, the solution is to make sure we stop missing
it rather than not take anything to begin with :)

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha