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Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:33:57 -0700
From:   Benson Leung <bleung@google.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Won Chung <wonchung@google.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sound/hda: Add NULL check to component match callback
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Hi Greg,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:18:00PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:58:43AM -0700, Won Chung wrote:
> > > So is this actually triggering on 5.17 right now?  Or is it due to so=
me
> > > other not-applied changes you are testing at the moment?
> > >
> > > confused,
> > >
> > > greg k-h
> >=20
> > Hi Greg,
> >=20
> > I believe it is not causing an issue in 5.17 at the moment. It is
> > triggered when we try to apply new changes and test it locally.
> > (registering a component for usb4_port)
>=20
> Then why would it ever be needed to be backported to a stable kernel?
>=20
> Please be more careful.
>=20
> greg k-h

Sorry about that. I gave Won bad advice to cc stable. You're right, it will
only be relevant when a future patch lands in usb4.

Thanks,
Benson

--=20
Benson Leung
Staff Software Engineer
Chrome OS Kernel
Google Inc.
bleung@google.com
Chromium OS Project
bleung@chromium.org

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