linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.19 003/206] ASoC: tegra: tegra_wm8903: Support nvidia, headset property

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Date:   Fri, 26 Jun 2020 14:17:33 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 003/206] ASoC: tegra: tegra_wm8903: Support nvidia,
 headset property

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2020-06-25 20:45:16, Mark Brown wrote:

> > The documentation is an issue (and another thing that probably ought to
> > block stable backports...) but the lack of usage is totally fine, there
> > is zero requirement that DTs be upstream - this is a stable ABI.

> I'd expect stable for fixing known bugs, not really for "someone out
> of tree might be using old kernel with new dts".

I don't think this is suitable for a stable backport, or that we should
just stop calling this stable, I'm just pointing out that there is never
any requirement for any DT stuff to have in-tree users.

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