linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] soundwire: clear bus clash/parity interrupt before the mask is enabled

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Date:   Mon, 22 Mar 2021 17:40:42 +0530
From:   Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>
To:     Bard Liao <yung-chuan.liao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org,
        rander.wang@...ux.intel.com, hui.wang@...onical.com,
        pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com, sanyog.r.kale@...el.com,
        bard.liao@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] soundwire: clear bus clash/parity interrupt
 before the mask is enabled

On 02-03-21, 16:27, Bard Liao wrote:
> The SoundWire specification allows a Slave device to report a bus clash
> or parity error with the in-band interrupt mechanism.
> Unfortunately, on some platforms, these errors are randomly reported and
> don't seem to be valid.
> This series suggests the addition of a Master level quirk to discard such
> interrupts. The quirk should in theory have been added at the Slave level,
> but since the problem was detected with different generations of Slave
> devices it's hard to point to a specific IP. The problem might also be
> board-dependent and hence dealing with a Master quirk is simpler.

I think this is fine approach to deal with quirks... Controllers can set
the quirk as required. I have fixed up blank line in patch 1 and applied

-- 
~Vinod