Re: [stable] [uclinux-dist-devel] [PATCH 3.0]ASoC: ad193x: add spi_hw_read, fix sysclk and register definition

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 03:43:09PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:34:32 -0700,
> Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:52:18AM -0400, Zhang, Sonic wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: uclinux-dist-devel-bounces@blackfin.uclinux.org
> > > >[mailto:uclinux-dist-devel-bounces@blackfin.uclinux.org] On
> > > >Behalf Of Scott Jiang
> > > >Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 4:27 PM
> > > >To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > >Cc: uclinux-dist-devel@blackfin.uclinux.org;
> > > >alsa-devel@alsa-project.org; stable@kernel.org
> > > >Subject: [uclinux-dist-devel] [alsa-devel][PATCH 3.0]ASoC:
> > > >ad193x: add spi_hw_read, fix sysclk and register definition
> > > >
> > > >asoc cache layer can't support this kind of spi registers, so
> > > >bypass cache and read regiters directly
> > > >
> > > 
> > > This patch is against stable kernel 3.0 only, the ASOC framework in kernel 3.1 and later are different.
> > 
> > Then I need some acks from all of the relevant maintainers before I can
> > apply it to the stable kernel tree.
> > 
> > Is there a corrisponding patch in Linus's tree that does the same thing
> > already?
> 
> Not yet, even neither in sound git tree.
> 
> We're handling the same patch now for 3.1.  As the patch is likely
> applicable to 3.0 as is, putting Cc to stable would be enough, I
> suppose.
> 
> 
> Scott, the patch to stable kernel must have been applied to the
> upstream tree beforehand.  Read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

Ok, now dropped from my stable "to-apply" mbox.

I'll wait for the real patch to hit Linus's tree.

greg k-h