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Do you still have a mipad ????
If yes please help us
We cannot make shield tablet blobs stable on mipad
We need bootloader sources please help

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Xaleth commented Oct 9, 2017

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@tiwai tiwai force-pushed the master branch 2 times, most recently from f458f0d to e9f427c Compare November 6, 2017 14:06
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Xaleth commented Nov 8, 2017

The minus side: More changes = the longer it takes to review and the increased chance of a hidden backdoor.

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One hint: Change the PR name to something that makes sense.....

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Xaleth commented Nov 30, 2017

Please stop your excessive committing.

@tiwai tiwai force-pushed the master branch 3 times, most recently from 619a0f2 to e9e5430 Compare April 25, 2018 14:57
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179 hidden items

Now that's alot.

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I think that's a bit too much.

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Xaleth commented Jun 16, 2018

@389abhaysingh we're not going to do anything about your patch. You're only wasting your time. Goodbye.

It appears that you're trolling.

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voidnull000 commented Jun 16, 2018

I'm not trolling. I'm just looking around the internet for no reason and commenting on things I THINK I have a good answer to.

Most of the time that's not the case.

EDIT: On second review, you may not of been talking about me. insert me destroying my forehead here if you want

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Xaleth commented Jun 17, 2018

@adamc295 I wasn't talking to you lol.

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I hate this PR's title.
Like seriously, who names a PR "Hyy there"
It's like saying "Heyyyy 🅱eter" on a serious repo.
It makes no sense.
Could someone change it for him? Please? Because he's not going to do it.

fengguang pushed a commit to 0day-ci/linux that referenced this pull request Jan 30, 2019
Lockdep warns about false positive:
[   11.211460] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[   11.211936] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(depth <= 0)
[   11.211985] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 141 at ../kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3592 lock_release+0x1ad/0x280
[   11.213134] Modules linked in:
[   11.213413] CPU: 0 PID: 141 Comm: systemd-journal Not tainted 5.0.0-rc3-00018-g2fa53f892422-dirty torvalds#476
[   11.214191] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
[   11.214954] RIP: 0010:lock_release+0x1ad/0x280
[   11.217036] RSP: 0018:ffff88813ba03f50 EFLAGS: 00010086
[   11.217516] RAX: 000000000000001f RBX: ffff8881378d8000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[   11.218179] RDX: ffffffff810d3e9e RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffffffff810d3eb3
[   11.218851] RBP: ffff8881393e2b08 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000000
[   11.219504] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff88813ba03d9d R12: ffffffff8118dfa2
[   11.220162] R13: 0000000000000086 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
[   11.220717] FS:  00007f3c8cf35780(0000) GS:ffff88813ba00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[   11.221348] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[   11.221822] CR2: 00007f5825d92080 CR3: 00000001378c8005 CR4: 00000000003606f0
[   11.222381] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[   11.222951] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[   11.223508] Call Trace:
[   11.223705]  <IRQ>
[   11.223874]  ? __local_bh_enable+0x7a/0x80
[   11.224199]  up_read+0x1c/0xa0
[   11.224446]  do_up_read+0x12/0x20
[   11.224713]  irq_work_run_list+0x43/0x70
[   11.225030]  irq_work_run+0x26/0x50
[   11.225310]  smp_irq_work_interrupt+0x57/0x1f0
[   11.225662]  irq_work_interrupt+0xf/0x20

since rw_semaphore is released in a different task vs task that locked the sema.
It is expected behavior.
Silence the warning by using up_read_non_owner().

Fixes: bae77c5 ("bpf: enable stackmap with build_id in nmi context")
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
serifpersia and others added 29 commits August 19, 2025 11:29
The `us144mkii.c` driver was generating sparse warnings due to direct
comparisons of `dev->descriptor.idProduct` (a `__le16` type) with
integer constants. This commit resolves these warnings by explicitly
converting `idProduct` to a CPU-endian integer using `le16_to_cpu()`
before comparison.

This ensures correct handling of endianness and eliminates the sparse
warnings:
- `restricted __le16 degrades to integer`

Fixes: dee1bcf ("ALSA: usb-audio: Add initial driver for TASCAM US-144MKII")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Šerif Rami <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
…lete()

The smatch tool reported a potential null pointer dereference in
tascam_midi_in_urb_complete(). The 'tascam' variable, derived from
'urb->context', was checked for nullity in one place, but dereferenced
without a check in several other places.

This patch fixes the issue by adding a null check at the beginning of
the function. If 'tascam' is null, the function now safely exits.
This prevents any potential crashes from null pointer dereferences.

It also fixes a latent bug where 'usb_put_urb()' could
be called twice for the same URB on submission failure, which would
lead to a use-after-free error.

Fixes: 67afec1 ("ALSA: usb-audio: us144mkii: Add MIDI support and mixer controls")
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]/
Signed-off-by: Šerif Rami <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Just add fixed struct size validations for UAC2 and UAC3 effect
units.  The descriptor has a variable-length array, so it should be
validated with a proper function later once when the unit is really
parsed and used by the driver (currently only referred partially for
the input terminal parsing).

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Remove 0/NULL global variable assignment in mixer-test.c and pcm-test.c

Signed-off-by: Nikola Z. Ivanov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Applying the quirk of that, the lowest Playback mixer volume setting
mutes the audio output, on more devices.

Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests/2514
Cc: <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Guoli An <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cryolitia PukNgae <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
The SOF driver is required for functional audio on MTL Chromebooks

Signed-off-by: Brady Norander <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Commit ad781b5 ("ALSA: hda/hdmi: Rewrite to new probe method")
rewrote the HDMI codec ID tables to a new format. In doing so, recently
added codec IDs from commit e0a911a ("ALSA: hda: Add missing NVIDIA
HDA codec IDs") were dropped from the tables. These tables had recently
been split from the unified table that existed in patch_hdmi.c, and did
contain the entries in question after the split but before the codec ID
entries were rewritten to the new format.

Restore the missing codec ID entries to nvhdmi.c and tegrahdmi.c. There
do not appear to be any additional missing entries in any of the other
codec ID tables when compared to the patch_hdmi.c at the final revision
before the split.

Fixes: ad781b5 ("ALSA: hda/hdmi: Rewrite to new probe method")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Dadap <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Add a handshake value of 0x32, which is required when the device
was previously used by another OS with the official drivers.

Correct the last byte of the MIDI output protocol to 0xe0.

Also, remove the unused DRIVER_VERSION macro.

Signed-off-by: Šerif Rami <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Add a PCI quirk to enable microphone detection on the headphone jack of
TongFang X6AR5xxY and X6FR5xxY devices.

Signed-off-by: Aaron Erhardt <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
We have found more and more devices that have the same problem, that
the mixer's minimum value is muted. Accroding to pipewire's MR[1]
and Arch Linux wiki[2], this should be a very common problem in USB
audio devices. Move the quirk into common quirk,as a preparation of
more devices' quirk's patch coming on the road[3].

1. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/merge_requests/2514
2. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=PipeWire&oldid=804138#No_sound_from_USB_DAC_until_30%_volume
3. On the road, in the physical sense. We have been buying ton of
   these devices for testing the problem.

Tested-by: Guoli An <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Cryolitia PukNgae <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Clean up the code using guard() for spin locks.

Merely code refactoring, and no behavior change.

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
…ead of 0

A bug reported by one of my customers that EFI name beginning with 0
instead of 1.

Fixes: 4fe2385 ("ALSA: hda/tas2781: Move and unified the calibrated-data getting function for SPI and I2C into the tas2781_hda lib")
Signed-off-by: Shenghao Ding <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
Change the 'ret' variable from u16 to int to store negative error codes or
zero returned by lx_message_send_atomic().

Storing the negative error codes in unsigned type, doesn't cause an issue
at runtime but it's ugly as pants. Additionally, assigning negative error
codes to unsigned type may trigger a GCC warning when the -Wsign-conversion
flag is enabled.

No effect on runtime.

Fixes: 02bec49 ("ALSA: lx6464es - driver for the digigram lx6464es interface")
Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <[email protected]>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
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