Re: [PATCH 6.1.y 0/7] ASoC: codecs: es8326: fix support

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Feb 13 2024 - 09:56:03 EST


On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 05:13:50PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:47:01PM +0300, kovalev@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > These patches were backported from v6.6 upstream and
> > are intended for 6.1.y stable kernel.
> >
> > Patches have been successfully tested on the latest 6.1.75 kernel.
> >
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 1/7] ASoC: codecs: es8326: Convert to i2c's .probe_new()
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 2/7] ASoC: codecs: ES8326: Add es8326_mute function
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 3/7] ASoC: codecs: ES8326: Change Hp_detect register names
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 4/7] ASoC: codecs: ES8326: Change Volatile Reg function
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 5/7] ASoC: codecs: ES8326: Fix power-up sequence
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 6/7] ASOC: codecs: ES8326: Add calibration support for
> > [PATCH 6.1.y 7/7] ASoC: codecs: ES8326: Update jact detection function
> >
> >
>
> What exactly is being "fixed" here? Was the driver not working properly
> in 5.15? What broke in 6.1? Or has this hardware just never worked?
>
> These all don't seem to be fixes, so what is the need for these?

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