linux-kernel - Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] drm/bridge: adv7511: restrict audio sample sizes

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Date:   Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:15:24 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
Cc:     Arnaud Pouliquen <arnaud.pouliquen@...com>,
        Jyri Sarha <jsarha@...com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        Archit Taneja <architt@...eaurora.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] drm/bridge: adv7511: restrict audio
 sample sizes

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 01:52:35PM +0100, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 01/08/17 13:28, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > And it's a false indication that we are supporting 32bit samples.
> > > Which am not very happy with.

> > This is what the sample_bits field in the DAI structure is for.ya.

> But still reporting that driver supports 32 bit samples when it does not
> really support all 32 bits, is kinda misleading to user.
> Isn't it?

No.  Please read what I wrote and look at what setting sample_bits does.

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