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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [v2] ASoC: support all possible sample
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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:33:38 -0500
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Mark Brown wrote:
> Machine drivers are currently best placed to set constraints if the
> clocking is limited.

But how is the machine driver supposed to know what those sample rates are?  It
would need to know how which dividers that codec uses.  That would mean that the
machine driver has to be hard-codec with information on the internals of the codec.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale