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

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:44:38 +0530,
Vinod Koul wrote:
> 
> 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.

I've seen nothing but changing the comment in the patch.
What's missing?

> The meaning of the value is changing here... 

Again, is this a bug fix?  Stable patches are only for bug fixes.


Takashi