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Message-ID: <YkXmBQ5TJ4JNnuQG@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:33:57 -0700
From:   Benson Leung <bleung@...gle.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Won Chung <wonchung@...gle.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
        Prashant Malani <pmalani@...omium.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sound/hda: Add NULL check to component match callback
 function

Hi Greg,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:58:43AM -0700, Won Chung wrote:
> > > So is this actually triggering on 5.17 right now?  Or is it due to some
> > > other not-applied changes you are testing at the moment?
> > >
> > > confused,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > I believe it is not causing an issue in 5.17 at the moment. It is
> > triggered when we try to apply new changes and test it locally.
> > (registering a component for usb4_port)
> 
> Then why would it ever be needed to be backported to a stable kernel?
> 
> Please be more careful.
> 
> greg k-h

Sorry about that. I gave Won bad advice to cc stable. You're right, it will
only be relevant when a future patch lands in usb4.

Thanks,
Benson

-- 
Benson Leung
Staff Software Engineer
Chrome OS Kernel
Google Inc.
bleung@...gle.com
Chromium OS Project
bleung@...omium.org

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