Re: [PATCH RFC 2/3] ASoC: hdmi-codec: add support for bclk_ratio

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On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:58:34PM +0200, Jyri Sarha wrote:
> On 25/02/2019 16:03, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > As mentioned in the commit message, this is what TDA998x does today,
> > and I have to assume that the contributor tested this, who seems to
> > be one Jyri Sarha in commit 95db3b255fde ("drm/i2c: tda998x: Improve
> > tda998x_configure_audio() audio related pdata").
> 
> Yes, my original implementation was a bit optimistic. I only had limited
> information about the chip and a somewhat working undocumented hackish
> driver implementation. By now it's clear that rejecting anything but
> 16-, 24-, or 32-bit sample widths (32, 48, or 64 bclk ratios) would have
> been right way to go.
> 
> > If we don't do it this way, then converting TDA998x to use this
> > defaulting would change the already established behaviour.  As there
> > are no users of this by hdmi-codec implementations, and as there are
> > no callers of snd_soc_dai_set_bclk_ratio(), the only way to maintain
> > the current behaviour in TDA998x is to either place a default in
> > hdmi-codec.c, or to have hdmi-codec.c pass zero into TDA998x and have
> > that encode the above.
> 
> I think there are other options too. The obvious one would be passing
> the blck_ratio callback trough HDMI-codec to HDMI-bridge-driver, but
> yes, I do not like that either.
> 
> The other would be changing the implicit bclk_ratio to 2 x sample-width,
> and accepting blck_ratios of 36 and 40 in tda998x, and set CTS_N_M = 3
> and CTS_N_K = 2 for them too.
> 
> This way my bad choices would not spread to all hdmi-codec users.
> 
> Then again, I don't think anyone is using 18- or 20-bit samples with
> tda998x. They most likely do not even work. So simply refusing the 36
> and 40 blck_ratios would probably be just fine too.

Another would be keepign the existing code with an additional
WARN_ON_ONCE(1) if invoked, which would have the effect of encouraging
drivers to be fixed up to call snd_soc_dai_set_bclk_ratio() - which has
surely to be a good thing?  However, the risk is that no one reports
the problem cases...

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