[alsa-devel] [PATCH] [v2] ASoC: support all possible sample rates in the WM8776 driver

[Mark Brown]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:25:08PM -0500, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > Right, but the two things aren't connected.  As I've *repeatedly* said
> > the list of supported sample rates in the DAI should be the full set
> > that the device can support, unrelated to any clock setup.

> But I could hook up any frequency to audmclk and dacmclk.  What if I want
> 40000Hz as a sample rate?  I could then then set mclk to 15.36MHz.

If the CODEC supports continuous rates it'll say so and nothing in the
CODEC driver will stop that being selected.

> I don't see how the codec driver can know what sample rates it supports until
> *after* set_sysclk() is called (i.e. when the driver is told the value of mclk).

The part will have been specified and qualified for a set of sample
rates.  These will be listed in the datasheet and are the rates the
driver should advertise.