This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ALSA: timer: Relax start tick time check for slave timer elements to the 5.4-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: alsa-timer-relax-start-tick-time-check-for-slave-timer-elements.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.