Re: [PATCH 4/4] ASoC: simple-card: Support for selecting system clocks by ID

From: Peter Ujfalusi
Date: Wed Feb 17 2016 - 14:54:58 EST


On 02/17/2016 02:07 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:13:35AM +0200, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>
>> With this change we don't need to write custom machine drivers for setup not
>> using sysclk_id == 0.
>> I do think this is reasonable change by itself.
>
>> However I do think that the current simple-card is flawed regarding to clock
>> selection and the change Jyri and me are proposing is reasonable.
>
> But you define a new ABI to specify it in the process, I'd rather fix
> the flaws by using the common clock ABI than extend any device stuff.
> If it didn't define a new ABI I'd probably not worry about it but one of
> the issues we have with DT is that we do end up making ABIs every time
> we put something in DT.

I understand. This should have been supported by simple-card since the
beginning. When we tried to move all boards to use simple-card, we hit the
wall by not being able to select and configure other sysclk_id than 0.
I don't want to create yet another simple card which handles only sysclk_id 1 ;)
On the other hand this ABI is backwards compatible since if it is missing it
will default to the configuration we right now have regarding to sysclk_dir
and sysclk_id.

I will look at the CCF implementation for McASP first then for aic3x.

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