On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 07:34:07PM +0100, Kirill Marinushkin wrote:

> 2. The suggested commit breaks the existing ASoC.

> The existing functionality already works with several existing ASoC by
> Intel. The suggested commit will break it for the following reason:

> The ALSA topology mechanism loads the binary topology file into ASoC. The
> suggested commit modifies the parser, but the binaries are already created for
> the existing functionality. As a result, all existing binaries will be parsed
> incorrectly.

Are there actual binaries using the existing code or is that just
theoretical?  My impression was that this was fixing things for existing
binaries which were shipped for non-mainline kernels, is that not the
case?