This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ASoC: mediatek: Assign dummy when codec not specified for a DAI link to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: asoc-mediatek-assign-dummy-when-codec-not-specified-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit def621b24576769ad196dd47c80b36f187f345cd Author: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Mar 13 12:01:29 2024 +0100 ASoC: mediatek: Assign dummy when codec not specified for a DAI link [ Upstream commit 5f39231888c63f0a7708abc86b51b847476379d8 ] MediaTek sound card drivers are checking whether a DAI link is present and used on a board to assign the correct parameters and this is done by checking the codec DAI names at probe time. If no real codec is present, assign the dummy codec to the DAI link to avoid NULL pointer during string comparison. Fixes: 4302187d955f ("ASoC: mediatek: common: add soundcard driver common code") Signed-off-by: AngeloGioacchino Del Regno <angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://msgid.link/r/20240313110147.1267793-5-angelogioacchino.delregno@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-soundcard-driver.c b/sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-soundcard-driver.c index a58e1e3674dec..000a086a8cf44 100644 --- a/sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-soundcard-driver.c +++ b/sound/soc/mediatek/common/mtk-soundcard-driver.c @@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ static int set_card_codec_info(struct snd_soc_card *card, codec_node = of_get_child_by_name(sub_node, "codec"); if (!codec_node) { - dev_dbg(dev, "%s no specified codec\n", dai_link->name); + dev_dbg(dev, "%s no specified codec: setting dummy.\n", dai_link->name); + + dai_link->codecs = &snd_soc_dummy_dlc; + dai_link->num_codecs = 1; + dai_link->dynamic = 1; return 0; }