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Date:   Wed, 5 Dec 2018 11:34:06 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Cheng-yi Chiang <cychiang@chromium.org>
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        alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Dylan Reid <dgreid@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mfd: cros_ec: Add commands to control codec
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On Wed, 05 Dec 2018, Lee Jones wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Dec 2018, Cheng-yi Chiang wrote:
> 
> > Hi Lee,
> > 
> > I tried to apply this patch based on
> > for-mfd-next branch of mfd tree (
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd.git )
> > Then, I tried to compile all modules by
> > 
> >  ARCH=x86_64 make allyesconfig
> >  ARCH=x86_64 make -j64
> > 
> > There was no error.
> > Could you please let me know what was the error when you failed to
> > apply this patch ?
> 
> Doesn't work for me.
> 
> lee@host:~/projects/kernel [for-mfd-next]$ formfdnext
> Applying: mfd: cros_ec: Add commands to control codec
> error: sha1 information is lacking or useless (include/linux/mfd/cros_ec_commands.h).
> error: could not build fake ancestor
> Patch failed at 0001 mfd: cros_ec: Add commands to control codec
> Use 'git am --show-current-patch' to see the failed patch
> When you have resolved this problem, run "git am --continue".
> If you prefer to skip this patch, run "git am --skip" instead.
> To restore the original branch and stop patching, run "git am --abort".

Not that the following lines (as seen in your patch) are not present
in the Mainline kernel.

> @@ -4077,6 +4077,100 @@ struct __ec_align1 ec_response_i2c_passthru_protect {
>  	uint8_t status;		/* Status flags (0: unlocked, 1: locked) */
>  };

Do you have other patches applied to your tree?

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