On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:53:52PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > 25.11.2021 15:28, Mark Brown пишет: > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 03:04:35PM +0300, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > >> This driver never worked before this patchset, hence there is nothing to > >> backport, this is explained in the cover letter. But in general you're > >> correct. > > That's not going to stop the stable people backporting things, and I'd > > guess it might've worked at some point on some systems - I'm not seeing > > anything that jumps out as making the driver completely unworkable in > > your patches. > I can change commit message with the "fix" word removed, this should > prevent patch from backporting. I wouldn't count on it TBH. In any case, definitely no need to resend for this alone. > This driver never worked in mainline because S/PDIF device was never > created, thus driver was never bound. Driver doesn't work properly > without this patch. Nobody used this driver as-is before this patchset. Someone might've been using it with an out of tree board file, I guess on an older stable at this point.
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