--- /dev/null
+From 8b93e26919ff2f7e9505ba0c599830f2d14db3f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 20:48:46 +0200
+Subject: Revert "ASoC: Fail card instantiation if DAI format setup fails"
+
+From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+
+This reverts commit 714a8438fc8ae88aa22c25065e241bce0260db13 which is
+commit 40aa5383e393d72f6aa3943a4e7b1aae25a1e43b upstream.
+
+Mark Brown writes:
+ I nacked this patch when Sasha posted it - it only improves
+ diagnostics and might make systems that worked by accident break
+ since it turns things into a hard failure, it won't make
+ anything that didn't work previously work.
+
+Reported-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
+Cc: Ricard Wanderlof <ricardw@axis.com>
+Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
+Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181027.GG4348@sirena.co.uk
+Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
+---
+ sound/soc/soc-core.c | 7 ++-----
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
+
+--- a/sound/soc/soc-core.c
++++ b/sound/soc/soc-core.c
+@@ -1513,11 +1513,8 @@ static int soc_probe_link_dais(struct sn
+ }
+ }
+
+- if (dai_link->dai_fmt) {
+- ret = snd_soc_runtime_set_dai_fmt(rtd, dai_link->dai_fmt);
+- if (ret)
+- return ret;
+- }
++ if (dai_link->dai_fmt)
++ snd_soc_runtime_set_dai_fmt(rtd, dai_link->dai_fmt);
+
+ ret = soc_post_component_init(rtd, dai_link->name);
+ if (ret)