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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
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Mark Brown wrote:
> It's entirely possible that if the board designer intended the verious
> SSIs to be used in concert they've done something like cross wire the
> clocks which creates a board-specific interrelationship that needs to be
> dealt with.

Fine, but I don't see how that can be handled with the current code.  Each SSI is independent, and audio is streamed to it via DMA.  The current SSI driver would need to be completely rewritten in order to initiate both DMA operations simultaneously.  The clocking is the least of my problems.

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Timur Tabi
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