Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] ALSA: hda/i915: Add an allow_modprobe argument to snd_hdac_i915_init

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hey,

On 2023-08-12 10:21, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:08:32 +0200,
> Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
> > On 8/7/23 04:00, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
> > > Xe is a new GPU driver that re-uses the display (and sound) code from
> > > i915. It's no longer possible to load i915, as the GPU can be driven
> > > by the xe driver instead.
> > >
> > > The new behavior will return -EPROBE_DEFER, and wait for a compatible
> > > driver to be loaded instead of modprobing i915.
> > >
> > > Converting all drivers at the same time is a lot of work, instead we
> > > will convert each user one by one.
> > >
> > > Changes since v1:
> > > - Use dev_err_probe to set a probe reason for debugfs' deferred_devices.
> >
> > You want the changes below the --- line ...
>
> Note that there are subsystems preferring keeping the version change
> logs in the commit log (typically found in drm trees), although
> majority of subsystems (including sound) want rather cleaner logs,
> AFAIK.
Yeah, I usually maintain stuff in drm. :)

Cheers,
~Maarten