Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] ASoC: qcom: apq8096: add kcontrols to set PCM rate

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Feb 10 2020 - 15:08:44 EST


On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 03:00:55PM -0500, Adam Serbinski wrote:
> On 2020-02-10 13:26, Mark Brown wrote:

> > To repeat my comment on another patch in the series there should still
> > be some representation of the DAI for this device in the kernel.

> Respectfully, I'm not sure I understand what it is that you are suggesting.

> Is it your intention to suggest that instead of adding controls to the
> machine driver, I should instead write a codec driver to contain those
> controls?

I have already separately said that you should write a CODEC driver for
this CODEC. I'm saying that this seems like the sort of thing that
might fit in that CODEC driver.

> Or is it your intention to suggest that something within the kernel is
> already aware of the rate to be set, and it is that which should set the
> rate rather than a control?

That would be one example of how such a CODEC driver could be
configured, and is how other baseband/BT devices have ended up going
(see cx20442.c for example).

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