Re: [PATCH 4.9 07/83] ASoC: Fail card instantiation if DAI format setup fails

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 07:10:27PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 07:52:59PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > [ Upstream commit 40aa5383e393d72f6aa3943a4e7b1aae25a1e43b ]
> > 
> > If the DAI format setup fails, there is no valid communication format
> > between CPU and CODEC, so fail card instantiation, rather than continue
> > with a card that will most likely not function properly.
> 
> I nacked this patch when Sasha posted it - it only improves diagnostics
> and might make systems that worked by accident break since it turns 
> things into a hard failure, it won't make anything that didn't work
> previously work.

This is already in the 4.14.141, 4.19.69, and 5.2.11 releases, have you
heard any problems there?

I'll be glad to drop this from the 4.9.y and 4.4.y queues, now if you
wish, but just want you to know it's already out there in some releases.

thanks,

greg k-h