On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 05:51:57PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> Sigh, I had to wait rc1 release so that everything can get synced for
> this kind of large API changes, and then one day after the window
> close, it's already too late... :-<

People send stuff through the merge window, and if everyone waits for
the end before submitting you end up with conflicts still.

> OK, will submit all patches again.  But at the next time I won't split
> to two series but in a single queue.  Be prepared.

I've applied most of it - there's only a couple that didn't end up
applying at all (IIRC these ones actually got fixed up).