Re: [PATCH] sound/soc/adi/axi-spdif.c: Support programmable master clock

[Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>]

On 12/04/2014 07:52 AM, Mike Looijmans wrote:
> If the master clock supports programmable rates, program it to generate
> the desired frequency. Only apply constraints when the clock is fixed.
> This allows proper clock generation for both 44100 and 48000 Hz based
> sampling rates if the platform supports it.
>
> The clock frequency must be set before enabling it. Enabling the clock
> was done in "startup", but that occurs before "hw_params" where the rate
> is known. Move the clock start to the hw_params routine, and keep track
> of whether the clock has been started, because shutdown may be called
> without having called hw_params first.

Usually that shouldn't be a problem. If your clock chip requires it to be 
disabled in order to be reprogrammed than the CLK_SET_RATE_GATE flag should 
be set. This will tell the core to disable the clock before changing it.

[...]
>   static const struct snd_soc_dai_ops axi_spdif_dai_ops = {
> @@ -216,14 +227,17 @@ static int axi_spdif_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	spdif->dma_data.addr_width = 4;
>   	spdif->dma_data.maxburst = 1;
>
> -	spdif->ratnum.num = clk_get_rate(spdif->clk_ref) / 128;
> -	spdif->ratnum.den_step = 1;
> -	spdif->ratnum.den_min = 1;
> -	spdif->ratnum.den_max = 64;
> -
> -	spdif->rate_constraints.rats = &spdif->ratnum;
> -	spdif->rate_constraints.nrats = 1;
> +	/* Determine if the clock rate is fixed. If it cannot change frequency,
> +	 * it returns an error here. */
> +	if (clk_round_rate(spdif->clk_ref, 128 * 44100) < 0) {

I don't think this works. For a fixed clock clk_round_rate() will return the 
fixed rate rather than an error. I tried the patch and even though I have a 
fixed clock the constraints are no longer set.

There is unfortunately no good way to enumerate which frequencies are 
supported by a clock other than just calling round_rate for all possible rates.

I think the best way to implement this for now is to try e.g. 32000 * 128, 
44100 * 128, 48000 * 128 and then check if clk_round_rate returns the 
expected rate and if it does set up a rate constraint for that rate.