Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.7 004/388] ASoC: tegra: tegra_wm8903: Support nvidia, headset property

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 08:31:18AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 12:23:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > That's concerning - please don't do this.  It's not what stable is
> > expected to be and there's no guarantee that you're getting all the
> > changes required to actually make things work.

> How come? This is one of the things stable rules explicitly call for:
> "New device IDs and quirks are also accepted".

I would expect that to be data only additions, I would not expect that
to be adding new code.

> If we're missing anything, the solution is to make sure we stop missing
> it rather than not take anything to begin with :)

It would be much better to not have to watch stable constantly like we
currently do - we're seeing people report breakage often enough to be a
concern as things are, we don't need to be trying to pile extra stuff in
there because there's some keywords in a changelog or whatever.  The
testing coverage for drivers is weak, increasing the change rate puts
more stress on that.

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