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

[Daniel Baluta]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 7:50 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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.

for-5.0 branch Kuninori's patch works fine:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10814255/

for-5.1 branch and later my patch works fine:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10817449/

Would you want me to change the patch for 5.0 to have an identical commit
message as the one for 5.1?