On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 06:49:51PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:53:07AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> > It's been that way for a very long time (2015?) for HDAudio support, see
> > sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c. It's my understanding that it was a conscious
> > design decision to use vendor-specific modules, if available, and
> > fallback to generic modules if the first pass failed.

> If it has been this way for so long, what has caused the sudden change
> to need to export this and call this function?

The usage predates the hardware that requires firmware downloads -
that's very new.