Re: [PATCH v5 1/7] ASoC: dt-bindings: fsl_asrc: Add new property fsl,asrc-format

From: Rob Herring
Date: Fri Mar 20 2020 - 13:32:19 EST


On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 02:19:44PM -0700, Nicolin Chen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 11:58:28AM +0800, Shengjiu Wang wrote:
> > In order to support new EASRC and simplify the code structure,
> > We decide to share the common structure between them. This bring
> > a problem that EASRC accept format directly from devicetree, but
> > ASRC accept width from devicetree.
> >
> > In order to align with new ESARC, we add new property fsl,asrc-format.
> > The fsl,asrc-format can replace the fsl,asrc-width, then driver
> > can accept format from devicetree, don't need to convert it to
> > format through width.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/fsl,asrc.txt | 5 +++++
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/fsl,asrc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/fsl,asrc.txt
> > index cb9a25165503..780455cf7f71 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/fsl,asrc.txt
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/fsl,asrc.txt
> > @@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ Optional properties:
> > will be in use as default. Otherwise, the big endian
> > mode will be in use for all the device registers.
> >
> > + - fsl,asrc-format : Defines a mutual sample format used by DPCM Back
> > + Ends, which can replace the fsl,asrc-width.
> > + The value is SNDRV_PCM_FORMAT_S16_LE, or
> > + SNDRV_PCM_FORMAT_S24_LE
>
> I am still holding the concern at the DT binding of this format,
> as it uses values from ASoC header file instead of a dt-binding
> header file -- not sure if we can do this. Let's wait for Rob's
> comments.

I assume those are an ABI as well, so it's okay to copy them unless we
already have some format definitions for DT. But it does need to be copy
in a header under include/dt-bindings/.

Rob