Re: [PATCH v3] ALSA: hda: cs35l56: Stop creating ALSA controls for firmware coefficients

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:31:39 +0200,
Simon Trimmer wrote:
> 
> A number of laptops have gone to market with old firmware versions that
> export controls that have since been hidden, but we can't just install a
> newer firmware because the firmware for each product is customized and
> qualified by the OEM. The issue is that alsactl save and restore has no
> idea what controls are good to persist which can lead to
> misconfiguration.
> 
> There is no reason that the UCM or user should need to interact with any
> of the ALSA controls for the firmware coefficients so they can be
> removed entirely, this also simplifies the driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Simon Trimmer <simont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
> - Remove ability to add firmware coefficients as ALSA controls
>   entirely
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - v1 was accidentally the backport version for older kernels instead of
>   the one for v6.11

Applied now to for-linus branch.  Thanks.


Takashi