Re: [PATCH] ASoC: simple-card: Fix refcount underflow

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Feb 18 2019 - 12:50:23 EST


On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:52:26AM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Daniel Baluta wrote:

> > > Fixes: commit da215354eb55c ("ASoC: simple-card: merge simple-scu-
> > > card")

> > Thanks! I thought about adding this but the current patch will not
> > cleanly apply because of:

> > 2d01a84605a55c ("ASoC: simple-card: reduce naming prefix")

That doesn't matter for fixes tags. However...

> Yeah, it's a bit tricky because of the code change at this time.

> At best, send two patches, once for 5.0 and once for 5.1, and let Mark
> apply both of them and do the empty merge from 5.0 to 5.1, or let him
> resolve the merge conflict by applying manually the 5.1 patch.

...since this is something that needs to be fixed for v5.0 we need a
patch that can be applied on v5.0 (and has been tested by someone who
sees the issue there). Takashi's plan seems like a good way to do that,
if you could send a patch against my for-5.0 branch (or just Linus'
tree) that'd be great.

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