Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.18 043/131] ASoC: soc-pcm: Use delay set in component pointer function

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 12:16:26PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 01:03:55PM +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Akshu Agrawal <akshu.agrawal@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 9fb4c2bf130b922c77c16a8368732699799c40de ]
>>
>> Take into account the base delay set in pointer callback.
>>
>> There are cases where a pointer function populates
>> runtime->delay, such as:
>> ./sound/pci/hda/hda_controller.c
>> ./sound/soc/intel/atom/sst-mfld-platform-pcm.c
>
>I'm worried that if anyone notices this at all they will have already
>compensated for the delays in userspace and therefore this will cause
>them to see problems as they get double compenstation for delays.

But what happens when they update to a newer Stable? They're going to
hit that issue anyways.