Re: [PATCH v3 09/15] ASoC: tegra: Add fallback for audio mclk

[Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@nvidia.com>]

On 12/6/19 8:29 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 08:19:26AM -0800, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
>> On 12/5/19 11:09 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 06:47:12PM -0800, Sowjanya Komatineni wrote:
>>>> mclk is from clk_out_1 which is part of Tegra PMC block and pmc clocks
>>>> are moved to Tegra PMC driver with pmc as clock provider and using pmc
>>>> clock ids.
>>>>
>>>> New device tree uses clk_out_1 from pmc clock provider.
>>>>
>>>> So, this patch adds fallback to extern1 in case of retrieving mclk fails
>>>> to be backward compatible of new device tree with older kernels.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sowjanya Komatineni <skomatineni@nvidia.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    sound/soc/tegra/tegra_asoc_utils.c | 10 ++++++++--
>>>>    1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>> <formletter>
>>>
>>> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
>>> stable kernel tree.  Please read:
>>>       https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>>> for how to do this properly.
>>>
>>> </formletter>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> link says to option-1 is strongly preferred for for all patches except for
>> submissions that are not in net/ and security related.
>>
>> Option-1 is to add Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org in sign-off area and I
>> followed this.
> That's fine, but then why did you just email a patch to yourself and the
> list?  Shouldn't you also submit the patch upstream to get it properly
> merged first?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

I set patches to the mailing list as per get_maintainers script.

Do I need to add any other alias to get patch applied for stable kernel 
other than cc tag?




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