[alsa-devel] define confusion

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 03:16:58PM +0200, John Kacur wrote:

> My situation is that although the codec has an internal clock, I will
> not be using it, (because it is not activated in the presense of an
> external clock source on the pin) the bit clock and the master clock
> are coming from the i2s bus, and I suppose the details of where they
> stem from is irrelevant. If they are not irrelevant, then the master
> clock is provided to the i2s bus from a crystal. So that means from
> the codec's view point that makes everything SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFS.

If the I2S bus is being clocked directly from the crystal rather than
via the CPU you want to tell the codec CBS_CFS and the CPU CBM_CFM so
that both devices are configured as slaves.