RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v6] ASoC: tas2781: Fix wrong loading calibrated data sequence

[Ding, Shenghao]

Thanks for your comments.

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> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v6] ASoC: tas2781: Fix wrong loading
> calibrated data sequence
> 
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2024 at 01:11:39PM +0000, Ding, Shenghao wrote:
> 
> > One of my customers requested tas2781 driver in kernel 6.10 to be merged
> into kernel 6.1.
> > I wondered how I  can handle this. May I resubmit the whole code into
> latest 6.1 branch?
> > Looking forward to your reply. Thanks.
> 
> You'd need to do something yourself - the stable kernels themselves don't
> add new features, and I think v6.1 is not updated any more anyway.
> The usual thing would be to do a backport and then publish it somehow,
> some vendors have git trees they use (some use github), some share patches
> via e-mail but there's a bunch of options there.
> 
> If this is for some OS vendor (or for use with a specific OS) you may be able
> to work directly with them to add the driver, some OSs are open to that but
> some aren't.