linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 03/20] ASoC: wm8994: Skip setting of the WM8994

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Date:   Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:07:01 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        patches@...nsource.cirrus.com, alsa-devel@...a-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 03/20] ASoC: wm8994: Skip setting of the
 WM8994_MICBIAS register for WM1811

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:

> The WM8994_MICBIAS register is not available in the WM1811 CODEC so skip
> initialization of that register for that device.
> This suppresses an error during boot:
> "wm8994-codec: ASoC: error at snd_soc_component_update_bits on wm8994-codec"

This is pretty much a cosmetic change - previously we were silently not
reading the register, this just removes the attempt to read it since we
added an error message in the core.

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