Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v4 resent 1/2] ASoC: fsl: Add S/PDIF CPU DAI driver

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 02:19:37PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> Yes, since the clk names are not an API. Exposing them to the devicetree
> is not an option. The fact that the names are defined in
> arch/arm/mach-imx/clk-imx6q.c and are used in the spdif driver makes
> this really clear.
> 
> The spdif core has 8 input clocks which have to be described in the
> devicetree. Nobody says the mapping which clock name corresponds to
> which bit combination has to be in the devicetree.

Thank you for the explain. I get your point and really appreciate it.

> Look at the possible clocks:
> 
> 0000 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk else extal
> 0001 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk else spdif_clk
> 0010 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk else asrc_clk
> 0011 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk else spdif_extclk
> 0100 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_Rxclk else esai_hckt
> 0101 extal_clk
> 0110 spdif_clk
> 0111 asrc_clk
> 1000 spdif_extclk
> 1001 esai_hckt
> 1010 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk else mlb_clk
> 1011 if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk else mlb_phy_clk
> 1100 mkb_clk
> 1101 mlb_phy_clk
> 
> Only half of them actually are clocks. "if (DPLL Locked) SPDIF_RxClk
> else ..." is not a clock. Every sane hardware developer would have
> introduced a mux with 8 entries and an additional "Use DPLL if possible"
> bit. Now this is not the case here so we have to live with it and
> maintain the above table in the driver. And another one for the i.MX35
> and still another one for i.MX53.

I think I just have an idea for the table. I'll put them into the
next version. Please take a look after I send it.

Thank you,
Nicolin Chen
 


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