Re: [PATCH] ASoC: qdsp6: q6apm: use dai link pcm id as pcm device number

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 04:43:57PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 10:24:04AM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > For some reason we ended up with a setup without this flag.
> > This resulted in inconsistent sound card devices numbers which
> >  are also not starting as expected at dai_link->id.
> >  (Ex: MultiMedia1 pcm ended up with device number 4 instead of 0)
> 
> Why is this a problem?
> 
> > With this patch patch now the MultiMedia1 PCM ends up with device number 0
> > as expected.
> > 
> > Fixes: 9b4fe0f1cd79 ("ASoC: qdsp6: audioreach: add q6apm-dai support")
> > Cc: <Stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Won't this be an ABI change?  That seems like it'd disrupt things in
> stable.

ABI changes should disrupt things just the same in Linus's tree, why is
stable any different?

thanks,

greg k-h