Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 30/62] ASoC: rt5645: add error checking to rt5645_probe function

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 11:15:17PM +0100, Phillip Potter wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 10:49:44PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Now I've looked at the patch I don't think it's appropriate for
> > stable, it's essentially equivalent to a patch that adds -Werror

> So I frankly don't have the experience to disagree with you :-) Your
> reasoning certainly seems sound to me. My original motivation for the
> patch (after discussion with others within the mentorship process) was
> that some other sound SoC drivers do this, an example being the Ux500. I
> defer to the decision of the community as a whole of course, and am
> happy with whatever is decided.

Right, so there's multiple bits here - there's checking at all,
there's adding the checks to mainline and there's backporting
them to stable.  For stable we want to be fairly conservative
about what we're backporting since we want people to be able to
just update without worrying about things breaking on them so
something that increases the severity of existing checks is
particularly risky, if the code were already there and people
would've seen any issues it causes when integrating the kernel
it's a different story since the risks are different.

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