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

[Vinod Koul]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 04:05:36PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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.
yup... we can't do 12K, 24K decoding without this. We actually found when folks
tried aac with 12K

~Vinod
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