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I would like to describe the reasoning by quoting Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> from his review of this patch series v1 [1]: > When you bind a link you will use set_fmt for the two sides to see if > they can agree, that both can support what has been asked. > > The pcm512x driver just saves the fmt and say back to that card: > whatever, I'm fine with it. But runtime during hw_params it can fail due > to unsupported bus format, which it actually acked to be ok. > > This is the difference. > > Sure, some device have constraint based on the fmt towards the hw_params > and it is perfectly OK to do such a checks and rejections or build > rules/constraints based on fmt, but failing hw_params just because > set_fmt did not checked that the bus format is not even supported is not > a nice thing to do. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/alsa-devel/patch/ 20201109212133.25869-1-kmarinushkin@birdec.com/ Signed-off-by: Kirill Marinushkin <kmarinushkin@birdec.com> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com> Cc: Matthias Reichl <hias@horus.com> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201115122306.18164-4-kmarinushkin@birdec.com Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.