Re: Patch "ASoC: sunxi: Add bindings for sun8i to SPDIF" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

["gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:28:05PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:17:33PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:09:12PM +0000, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
> >> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:07:44AM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> >
> >> >This doesn't seem like a good idea - note how the changelog says that
> >> >the transmit FIFO is at a different address, I'd expect this means that
> >> >people won't be able to use the new compatible without a corresponding
> >> >code change.
> >
> >> Interesting. I keep trying to automate DT patch selection to deal with
> >> issues as this, but it seems like there is always something...
> >
> >> I agree with Mark. I think it would make sense to pick 1bd92af877 as
> >> well to deal with this issue.
> >
> >Yeah, if they both go in together it's fine by me (though it's a little
> >more than just a device ID).
> 
> It's a quirk too :)

Ok, but 1bd92af877 does not apply cleanly (or even not cleanly) to 4.9,
can someone provide me a backport?

thanks,

greg k-h