18 Aug
2021
18 Aug
'21
7:52 p.m.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 06:49:51PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:53:07AM -0500, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:
It's been that way for a very long time (2015?) for HDAudio support, see sound/pci/hda/hda_bind.c. It's my understanding that it was a conscious design decision to use vendor-specific modules, if available, and fallback to generic modules if the first pass failed.
If it has been this way for so long, what has caused the sudden change to need to export this and call this function?
The usage predates the hardware that requires firmware downloads - that's very new.