From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:47320 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751409AbdKJNeV (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Nov 2017 08:34:21 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:34:31 +0100 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: "Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)" Cc: Mark Brown , "codekipper@gmail.com" , "maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com" , "stable@vger.kernel.org" , "stable-commits@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: Patch "ASoC: sunxi: Add bindings for sun8i to SPDIF" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree Message-ID: <20171110133431.GC30012@kroah.com> References: <151021855045240@kroah.com> <20171109110744.7b7tefmfglpl5zhg@sirena.co.uk> <20171109160909.km3ez7sradbqg4ey@sasha-lappy> <20171109161733.ejj7m3lfzpakzkze@sirena.co.uk> <20171109162803.ofzpnajnhqnsejhr@sasha-lappy> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171109162803.ofzpnajnhqnsejhr@sasha-lappy> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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