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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>
Cc: "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Dimitris.Papastamos@wolfsonmicro.com,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Daniel Matuschek <daniel@matuschek.net>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>,
	Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: Allow fine-grained control of the PLL generation
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:23:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109172350.GD12858@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+7tXijibZKUoeqeqpvOhgJg17OgpYR2Kv5S17TFdAKvaCjt3g@mail.gmail.com>


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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:14:07AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Daniel Matuschek <daniel@matuschek.net> wrote:

Daniel, please take more care with the CC lists when posting things -
there's nothing to do with device tree in this patch but you've CCed the
DT list and some DT people  wich means more noise in their mailbox.

> Why does it need to be an option?  If 256x is better, then why not
> always use it?  Maybe the code to select the divisor should be better?

It's typically a power/performance tradeoff, though for this part I
can't see anyone caring about power.

> Since it stops at the first divisor that works, won't it always use
> mclkdiv=1?  If mclkdiv=0 is better, why not just list those first/only
> in the table so they get used?

This seems like the best idea.  I suspect the table just got typed in
from the datasheet.

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From: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
To: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Matuschek <daniel@matuschek.net>,
	Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	"alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Dimitris.Papastamos@wolfsonmicro.com,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	patches@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: Allow fine-grained control of the PLL generation
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 17:23:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109172350.GD12858@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+7tXijibZKUoeqeqpvOhgJg17OgpYR2Kv5S17TFdAKvaCjt3g@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 09:14:07AM -0800, Trent Piepho wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Daniel Matuschek <daniel@matuschek.net> wrote:

Daniel, please take more care with the CC lists when posting things -
there's nothing to do with device tree in this patch but you've CCed the
DT list and some DT people  wich means more noise in their mailbox.

> Why does it need to be an option?  If 256x is better, then why not
> always use it?  Maybe the code to select the divisor should be better?

It's typically a power/performance tradeoff, though for this part I
can't see anyone caring about power.

> Since it stops at the first divisor that works, won't it always use
> mclkdiv=1?  If mclkdiv=0 is better, why not just list those first/only
> in the table so they get used?

This seems like the best idea.  I suspect the table just got typed in
from the datasheet.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-09 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-08 21:36 [PATCH] ASoC: wm8804: Allow fine-grained control of the PLL generation Daniel Matuschek
2014-01-09 14:20 ` Mark Brown
2014-01-09 14:20   ` Mark Brown
2014-01-09 14:27 ` [alsa-devel] " Charles Keepax
2014-01-09 15:29   ` Daniel Matuschek
2014-01-09 15:29     ` [alsa-devel] " Daniel Matuschek
2014-01-09 17:14     ` Trent Piepho
2014-01-09 17:14       ` [alsa-devel] " Trent Piepho
2014-01-09 17:23       ` Mark Brown [this message]
2014-01-09 17:23         ` Mark Brown

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