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 Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 04:04:22PM +0000, alexander.levin@verizon.com wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 02:34:31PM +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >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?
> 
> Sure, please pick the following 3 commits, should be no conflicts then:
> 
>  - 96e53c41e1f81c9e9d1ce38d3f28b95668b71dcf - just dead code removal,
> avoids conflicts later.

This commit claims the hardware is now supported by a different driver.
Is that support in 4.9?  I couldn't figure it out :(

thanks,

greg k-h