[PATCH] ASoC: sgtl5000: set DAP_AVC_CTRL register to correct default value on probe
Fabio Estevam
festevam at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 19:37:51 CET 2021
Hi Benjamin,
On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 3:33 PM Benjamin Rood <benjaminjrood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> According to the SGTL5000 datasheet [1], the DAP_AVC_CTRL register has
> the following bit field definitions:
>
> | BITS | FIELD | RW | RESET | DEFINITION |
> | 15 | RSVD | RO | 0x0 | Reserved |
> | 14 | RSVD | RW | 0x1 | Reserved |
> | 13:12 | MAX_GAIN | RW | 0x1 | Max Gain of AVC in expander mode |
> | 11:10 | RSVD | RO | 0x0 | Reserved |
> | 9:8 | LBI_RESP | RW | 0x1 | Integrator Response |
> | 7:6 | RSVD | RO | 0x0 | Reserved |
> | 5 | HARD_LMT_EN | RW | 0x0 | Enable hard limiter mode |
> | 4:1 | RSVD | RO | 0x0 | Reserved |
> | 0 | EN | RW | 0x0 | Enable/Disable AVC |
>
> The original default value written to the DAP_AVC_CTRL register during
> sgtl5000_i2c_probe() was 0x0510. This would incorrectly write values to
> bits 4 and 10, which are defined as RESERVED. It would also not set
> bits 12 and 14 to their correct RESET values of 0x1, and instead set
> them to 0x0. While the DAP_AVC module is effectively disabled because
> the EN bit is 0, this default value is still writing invalid values to
> registers that are marked as read-only and RESERVED as well as not
> setting bits 12 and 14 to their correct default values as defined by the
> datasheet.
>
> The correct value that should be written to the DAP_AVC_CTRL register is
> 0x5100, which configures the register bits to the default values defined
> by the datasheet, and prevents any writes to bits defined as
> 'read-only'. Generally speaking, it is best practice to NOT attempt to
> write values to registers/bits defined as RESERVED, as it generally
> produces unwanted/undefined behavior, or errors.
>
> Also, all credit for this patch should go to my colleague Dan MacDonald
> <dmacdonald at curbellmedical.com> for finding this error in the first
> place.
>
> [1] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/SGTL5000.pdf
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Rood <benjaminjrood at gmail.com>
Thanks for the fix:
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam at gmail.com>
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