ACK / APPLIED[F/Unstable]: [SRU][OEM-OSP1/E/unstable][PATCH 0/1] change kconfig of the soundwire bus driver from y to m

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon Dec 16 19:46:23 UTC 2019


On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 06:42:22PM +0800, Hui Wang wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1855685
> 
> [Impact]
> We just got a Dell laptop which has soundwire codec on it, and let
> us change the soundwire bus from y to m, then the kernel image size
> will be reduced and it is easy for us to use dkms to replace this
> driver.
> 
> And Intel released a sound wire audio driver to us, but it is based
> on the 5.4-rc7, we couldn't backport 150+ patches to our oem-osp1
> kernel, and we plan to use dkms on this machine. To use dkms, we
> need to change this driver to a kernel module.
> 
> [Fix]
> Change the kernel config from y to m.
> 
> [Test Case]
> We tested this patch on osp1 kernel, it worked very well with soundwire
> audio dkms.

Looking at the history, this option was originally a bool which I'm sure
is the only reason it wasn't enabled as a module originally.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

Applied to focal/master-next and unstable/master, thanks!



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