[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/9] ALSA: compress offfload fixes

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 02:32:28PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > >  - As disscused on our sample rate problem, lets move to use rate values and I
> > > >    will fix the lib too. Since the driver are not upstream the impact of this
> > > > change wont be huge.
> > > 
> > > I see no code touching sampling_rate field.
> > Yes its passed directly to the drivers, where tehy use values to program
> > decoders. Only meaning of the field is changing now.
> 
> So you're proposing a patch just changing the comment in the header
> file as a stable fix patch?  Please reread stable_kernel_rules.txt
> once again.
Yes along with header version so that tinycompress can cope with it.

The meaning of the value is changing here... 

~Vinod
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