linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH V2 06/10] ASoC: img: Add driver for parallel output controller

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Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2015 07:58:58 +0900
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Damien Horsley <Damien.Horsley@...tec.com>
Cc:	alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	James Hartley <James.Hartley@...tec.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH V2 06/10] ASoC: img: Add driver for parallel
 output controller

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 08:21:03PM +0100, Damien Horsley wrote:
> On 19/10/15 19:07, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 01:40:33PM +0100, Damien Horsley wrote:

> >> +	spin_lock_irqsave(&prl->lock, flags);
> >> +	reg = img_prl_out_readl(prl, IMG_PRL_OUT_CTL);
> >> +	ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] = !!(reg & IMG_PRL_OUT_CTL_EDGE_MASK);
> >> +	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prl->lock, flags);

> > Do you need to lock a single register read?

> Between the calls to reset_control_assert and reset_control_deassert,
> the block is held in reset. During this time, no register access will
> succeed. All register access that may occur concurrently with the reset
> needs to be locked

Add a comment so readers know this.

> >> +static struct snd_kcontrol_new img_prl_out_controls[] = {
> >> +	{
> >> +		.iface = SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_IFACE_PCM,
> >> +		.name = "Parallel Out Edge Falling",
> >> +		.info = img_prl_out_edge_info,
> >> +		.get = img_prl_out_get_edge,
> >> +		.put = img_prl_out_set_edge
> >> +	}
> >> +};

> > If this is a boolean control (it looked like one) it should be called
> > Switch but it's not clear to me what exactly is being controlled here or
> > why it's something that should be exposed to userspace.

> This controls the edge (rising/falling) of the frame clock that the
> samples are generated on. Should I create a set_fmt function and use
> SND_SOC_DAIFMT_NB_NF / SND_SOC_DAIFMT_NB_IF to set this instead? I
> wasn't sure if those formats were just for I2S or not

Yes, that's part of the DAI format - and we definitely don't want users
randomly changing this at runtime, the CODEC and CPU need to be
configured together.

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