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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:25:15 -0400 From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> To: Mark Brown <broonie@...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 04:07:01PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >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. Right, the only reason I took it is that error message - I find that bogus error messages have almost the same (bad) impact as real kernel bugs. I can drop it if you'd prefer. -- Thanks, Sasha
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