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h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=MC4T9yrNMAJ94kM2+SXcWdp6i2eKFYOzXDawiBEHaYHb2biJ9zHC2GbFujl40NAYf 5pVS6ClrEJRxbfN+WfsKaVEAKrj99uQ/bXcD/zBYaQ+LgxWhVQXqpH/5w2f9MxyKOB EhdNt8MV9yshaw+3oRvYnAyj42Wi+lS4OFNVH0EU= Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 09:47:21 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Mark Brown Subject: Re: stable-rc/linux-5.4.y bisection: baseline.dmesg.alert on meson-g12a-x96-max Message-ID: <20200502134721.GH13035@sasha-vm> References: <5eabecbf.1c69fb81.2c617.628f@mx.google.com> <20200501122536.GA38314@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200501122536.GA38314@sirena.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Guillaume Tucker , Takashi Iwai , Liam Girdwood , stable@vger.kernel.org, kernelci@groups.io, Kevin Hilman , linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Jerome Brunet X-BeenThere: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: "Alsa-devel mailing list for ALSA developers - http://www.alsa-project.org" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: "Alsa-devel" On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:25:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > >> The call stack is not the same as in the commit message found by >> the bisection, so maybe it only fixed part of the problem: > >No, it is a backport which was fixing an issue that wasn't present in >v5.4. > >> > Result: 09f4294793bd3 ASoC: meson: axg-card: fix codec-to-codec link setup > >As I said in reply to the AUTOSEL mail: > >| > Since the addition of commit 9b5db059366a ("ASoC: soc-pcm: dpcm: Only allow >| > playback/capture if supported"), meson-axg cards which have codec-to-codec >| > links fail to init and Oops: > >| This clearly describes the issue as only being present after the above >| commit which is not in v5.6. > >Probably best that this not be backported. Hrm... But I never queued that commit... I wonder what's up. -- Thanks, Sasha From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 09:47:21 -0400 From: Sasha Levin Subject: Re: stable-rc/linux-5.4.y bisection: baseline.dmesg.alert on meson-g12a-x96-max Message-ID: <20200502134721.GH13035@sasha-vm> References: <5eabecbf.1c69fb81.2c617.628f@mx.google.com> <20200501122536.GA38314@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200501122536.GA38314@sirena.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline List-ID: To: Mark Brown Cc: Guillaume Tucker , Jerome Brunet , Greg Kroah-Hartman , kernelci@groups.io, Kevin Hilman , Liam Girdwood , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, stable@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:25:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > >> The call stack is not the same as in the commit message found by >> the bisection, so maybe it only fixed part of the problem: > >No, it is a backport which was fixing an issue that wasn't present in >v5.4. > >> > Result: 09f4294793bd3 ASoC: meson: axg-card: fix codec-to-codec link setup > >As I said in reply to the AUTOSEL mail: > >| > Since the addition of commit 9b5db059366a ("ASoC: soc-pcm: dpcm: Only allow >| > playback/capture if supported"), meson-axg cards which have codec-to-codec >| > links fail to init and Oops: > >| This clearly describes the issue as only being present after the above >| commit which is not in v5.6. > >Probably best that this not be backported. Hrm... But I never queued that commit... 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charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-amlogic" Errors-To: linux-amlogic-bounces+linux-amlogic=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:25:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > >> The call stack is not the same as in the commit message found by >> the bisection, so maybe it only fixed part of the problem: > >No, it is a backport which was fixing an issue that wasn't present in >v5.4. > >> > Result: 09f4294793bd3 ASoC: meson: axg-card: fix codec-to-codec link setup > >As I said in reply to the AUTOSEL mail: > >| > Since the addition of commit 9b5db059366a ("ASoC: soc-pcm: dpcm: Only allow >| > playback/capture if supported"), meson-axg cards which have codec-to-codec >| > links fail to init and Oops: > >| This clearly describes the issue as only being present after the above >| commit which is not in v5.6. > >Probably best that this not be backported. Hrm... But I never queued that commit... 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charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 01:25:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: >On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 12:57:27PM +0100, Guillaume Tucker wrote: > >> The call stack is not the same as in the commit message found by >> the bisection, so maybe it only fixed part of the problem: > >No, it is a backport which was fixing an issue that wasn't present in >v5.4. > >> > Result: 09f4294793bd3 ASoC: meson: axg-card: fix codec-to-codec link setup > >As I said in reply to the AUTOSEL mail: > >| > Since the addition of commit 9b5db059366a ("ASoC: soc-pcm: dpcm: Only allow >| > playback/capture if supported"), meson-axg cards which have codec-to-codec >| > links fail to init and Oops: > >| This clearly describes the issue as only being present after the above >| commit which is not in v5.6. > >Probably best that this not be backported. Hrm... But I never queued that commit... I wonder what's up. -- Thanks, Sasha _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel