Re: [PATCH 1/6] ASoC: dapm: If one widget fails, do not force allsubsequent widgets to fail too

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 03:38:02PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:

> Neither of those are in my Inbox. Blame Mozilla. :)

You might want to look at a better mail program.

> It's better because the whole audio system doesn't fail in the case
> of minor failure. It'd be like calling off a football game (or
> whatever you're into) because one of the substitutes ruptured an
> eyelash.

It shouldn't make any difference to startup - we should still be
checking errors and failing the init if we're failing to add links, 
this isn't something that's likely to randomly break on a particular
boot, it's more something that indicates nobody bothered testing.

It's certainly totally inappropriate for an "urgent" bugfix.

> During start-up the ux500 has a couple of very unimportant widgets
> fail. It's the wrong behavior to force failure on the everything
> audio just because of that.

Fixes for those errors, however...
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