linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: fsl_esai: Fix divisor calculation failure at lower ratio

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Date:   Sun, 8 Apr 2018 22:34:01 -0300
From:   Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
To:     Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>
Cc:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@....com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: fsl_esai: Fix divisor calculation
 failure at lower ratio

Hi Nicolin,

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 8:57 PM, Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com> wrote:
> When the desired ratio is less than 256, the savesub (tolerance)
> in the calculation would become 0. This will then fail the loop-
> search immediately without reporting any errors.
>
> But if the ratio is smaller enough, there is no need to calculate
> the tolerance because PM divisor alone is enough to get the ratio.
>
> So a simple fix could be just to set PM directly instead of going
> into the loop-search.
>
> Reported-by: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicoleotsuka@...il.com>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de>

If this fixes Marek's usecase then I think we should also add:

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>

Thanks