Re: [PATCH 5/6] ASoC: codecs: aw88166: remove async start

[Aaron Kling]

On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 10:44:46AM -0500, Aaron Kling wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2026 at 9:13 AM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > > Again, are you sure this isn't a workaround for terrible hardware?
>
> > It's possible, I suppose. But this is copied from the already accepted
> > aw88261 series. And it has real effects on my devices. On an AYN Thor
> > without these changes, if I start a video, it will play for 1-2
> > seconds without audio, then I'll start hearing audio. With this
> > change, audio and video start at the same time.
>
> Does the audio sound fine - are there glitches at the start of the
> stream?

No glitches that I've noticed so far. Can't say I've done a crazy wide
range of tests, but I've run through most of my normal use cases and
haven't heard anything unexpected.

Aaron