[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 03/20] ASoC: wm8994: Skip setting of the WM8994_MICBIAS register for WM1811

Sasha Levin sashal at kernel.org
Tue Sep 22 16:25:15 CEST 2020


On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:40:10AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>
>> The WM8994_MICBIAS register is not available in the WM1811 CODEC so skip
>> initialization of that register for that device.
>> This suppresses an error during boot:
>> "wm8994-codec: ASoC: error at snd_soc_component_update_bits on wm8994-codec"
>
>This is pretty much a cosmetic change - previously we were silently not
>reading the register, this just removes the attempt to read it since we
>added an error message in the core.

Right, the only reason I took it is that error message - I find that
bogus error messages have almost the same (bad) impact as real kernel
bugs.

I can drop it if you'd prefer.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha


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