ACK: [SRU][jammy][pull-request v3] alsa: enable the cirrus-logic side-codec to make the speaker output sound

[Andrea Righi]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 08:47:14AM +0800, Hui Wang wrote:
> 
> On 3/30/22 21:22, Andrea Righi wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:00:19PM +0800, Hui Wang wrote:
> > > not touch existing codec drivers. If a machine with wm_adsp codec
> > > can't output sound or record sound, it means this SRU introduce
> > > the regression on wm_adsp driver, but this possibility is very
> > > low, since all patches are picked from mainline kernel.
> > Overall the code looks good, all the patches are pretty much clean
> > upstream cherry-picks (except for few backports, that are just context
> > adjustments).
> > 
> > However, this patch set is quite big:
> > 
> >    27 files changed, 5234 insertions(+), 222 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Even if it's mostly stand-alone code my question is... who is going to
> > maintain this code? Because we're not getting fixes via stable updates,
> > so I guess we should actively track the upstream changes for this codec
> > (especially potential security-related fixes).
> > 
> > Mostly for this reason I'm a bit skeptical about maintaining this code
> > directly in jammy/linux. However, if someone is taking care of actively
> > checking for upstream changes in this code and post backports to the
> > mailing list then I can definitely send my ACK.
> 
> Thanks Andrea,  I will keep an eye on the codec driver and send important
> fixes on this codec to the maillist.
> 
> And also Kaiheng is work on HP machines, those machines need this patchset
> too, Kaiheng and I will work together to make sure the important fixes for
> the codec will be sent to the maillist.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hui.

Thanks for the clarification Hui, in this case I think we can apply this
to jammy/linux directly, but after the imminent kernel freeze at this
point. :)

Acked-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi at canonical.com>