Re: [PATCH][ASoC]Add DT bindings for generic ASoC AC97 CODEC driver

[Maciej S. Szmigiero]

W dniu 07.03.2015 15:34, Mark Brown pisze:
> On Sat, Mar 07, 2015 at 02:58:53PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
>> W dniu 07.03.2015 11:52, Mark Brown pisze:
>>> On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 07:55:26PM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> 
>>> AC'97 shouldn't need DT bindings for the CODEC, it's an enumerable bus.
> 
>> What this driver did / does is essentially to allow attaching AC'97 bus
>> to ASoC AC'97 controllers which don't do it on its own (from what I can
>> see only board files do it).
> 
> That's true, and it's something it's easy to get away with with board
> files, but that doesn't mean it's something we should be doing for
> device tree where we're not just finding an expedient way to load things
> but rather defining an ABI.

Do you recommend then putting AC'97 bus/mixer attach in
simple-card/fsl-asoc-card or controller driver instead?

>> This driver originally constrained rates to 8000, 11025, 22050, 44100,
>> 48000.
> 
>> An alternative would be to remove this constraint at all from this
>> driver and leave such constraining for controller and AC'97 bus code.
> 
> That's a much better approach.
> 
>> But since this driver was originally limited to these rates I think it
>> would be safer to do it only when instantiated via OF.
> 
> Again, DT is defining an ABI.

Best regards,
Maciej Szmigiero

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