linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 01/68] ASoC: mediatek: mt8173-rt5650: Rename Speaker control to Ext Spk

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Message-ID: <YaZASLLyOC9EwnMs@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:16:24 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>, lgirdwood@...il.com,
        perex@...ex.cz, tiwai@...e.com, matthias.bgg@...il.com,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 01/68] ASoC: mediatek: mt8173-rt5650: Rename
 Speaker control to Ext Spk

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 09:45:57AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 0a8facac0d1e38dc8b86ade6d3f0d8b33dae7c58 ]
> 
> Some RT5645 and RT5650 powered platforms are using "Ext Spk"
> instead of "Speaker", and this is also reflected in alsa-lib
> configurations for the generic RT5645 usecase manager configs.
> 
> Rename the "Speaker" control to "Ext Spk" in order to be able
> to make the userspace reuse/inherit the same configurations also
> for this machine, along with the others.

This might cause people's userspace configurations relying on the old
name to break.  Obviously we're hoping nobody was doing that since
that's also true for kernel upgrades but it seems kind of aggressive for
stable...

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