On 9/24/21 5:13 PM, Ryan Lee wrote: > Amp lose its register values in case amp power loss or > 'ForceReset' over Soundwire SCP_ctrl register(0x0044) or > HW_RESET pin control during the audio suspend and resume. > Mark cache dirty before audio suspension to restore > existing values when audio resume. > > Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee <ryans.lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > sound/soc/codecs/max98373-sdw.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-sdw.c b/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-sdw.c > index dc520effc61c..a7e4a6e880b0 100644 > --- a/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-sdw.c > +++ b/sound/soc/codecs/max98373-sdw.c > @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static __maybe_unused int max98373_suspend(struct device *dev) > regmap_read(max98373->regmap, max98373->cache[i].reg, &max98373->cache[i].val); > > regcache_cache_only(max98373->regmap, true); > + regcache_mark_dirty(max98373->regmap); We already do the following sequence in max98373_io_init() when the amplifier re-attaches: if (max98373->first_hw_init) { regcache_cache_bypass(max98373->regmap, false); regcache_mark_dirty(max98373->regmap); } I don't see what marking the cache as dirty on suspend might do, we will do a sync only in the resume step. IIRC this is a patch that we've seen before and removed since it wasn't aligned with any other codec driver. Does this actually improve anything?