On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 12:22:18PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > At that time rt286 I2S wasn't even in the kernel. Bard didn't start > to land it until later that year > (https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/07cf7cbadb4d97a78be61119a406de8fe446467e). > > Was it really that crazy to plan Linux to take HDA mode?
Since we don't expose any way for the platform to detect that it's running Linux, yes. > I would like to respectfully ask that this patch not be added to older > stable kernel versions. It will knowingly cause a regression with > hardware in the field. If this isn't an appropriate criteria for > avoiding to backport a patch to stable, what is? Will it? You haven't shipped the firmware that changes this behaviour yet. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
