[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: Allow control of master clock divider in PLL generation

[Florian Meier]

On 01/17/2014 07:33 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 07:06:24PM +0100, Florian Meier wrote:
>>
> Intentionally off-list?

Oh no - I am sorry!

>> If I remember correctly the error was
>> "codec can not start from non-off bias with idle_bias_off==true"
> 
>> I think the solution is just to set idle_bias_off = false and everything
>> seems to be working with that. I just don't know if there might be any
>> side effects.
> 
> Setting it to false increases power consumption since the device is
> kept more powered on when idle but reduces startup time from idle.  For
> digital only devices like the wm8804 there shouldn't be any reason to
> keep it powered up when not in use, the startup time is generally
> negligable anyway.
> 

So a better solution would be to set SND_SOC_BIAS_OFF instead of
SND_SOC_BIAS_STANDBY at the end of probe?