Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.7 004/388] ASoC: tegra: tegra_wm8903: Support nvidia, headset property

Sasha Levin
2020-06-22T12:31:22Z

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 07:33:52PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 03:39:30PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>> > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 10:30:46AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 12:00:23PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> > > > This is a new feature not a bugfix.
>
>> > > I saw this patch more as a hardware quirk.
>
>> > Pretty much any DT property is a hardware quirk :(
>
>> Which is why we're taking most of them :)
>
>That's concerning - please don't do this. It's not what stable is
>expected to be and there's no guarantee that you're getting all the
>changes required to actually make things work.

How come? This is one of the things stable rules explicitly call for:
"New device IDs and quirks are also accepted".

If we're missing anything, the solution is to make sure we stop missing
it rather than not take anything to begin with :)

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Thanks,
Sasha