Re: [PATCH] sound: soc: fsl: Do not set DAI sysclk when it is equal to system freq

[Nicolin Chen]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 02:44:11PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
 
> > On the other hand, the sys clock (baudclk in the driver) should be
> > configured whenever it's related to external clock outputs. When I
> > implemented this set_sysclk() for fsl_ssi.c, I used it to set this
> > sys clock (baudclk) by a machine driver, in order to set bit clock.
> > Then someone patched the driver by moving all the code to set_bclk()
> > to make machine drivers simpler. Now the set_sysclk() is remained
> > to give machine drivers a chance to override clock configurations
> > in the hw_params(). This could be used in TDM or some other special
> > cases (It could also have a purpose for backwards compatibility).
> 
> > So here, we should set baudclk (BCLK generator).
> 
> No, that's just going to cause confusion - if all the other drivers are
> using set_sysclk() to set an input clock rate to the IP rather than an
> output clock but your driver does something else then sooner or later
> someone will run into trouble with that.  

I admit I had that concern. Probably I should have deprecated this
set_sysclk(). I will try to patch it and hw_params() accordingly.