[PATCH RFC 09/11] sound/core: add IEC958 channel status helper

[Yakir]

Hi Russell,

在 2015/3/31 17:13, Russell King - ARM Linux 写道:
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 04:30:39AM -0400, Yang Kuankuan wrote:
>>> +	cs[0] = IEC958_AES0_CON_NOT_COPYRIGHT | IEC958_AES0_CON_EMPHASIS_NONE;
>>> +	cs[1] = IEC958_AES1_CON_GENERAL;
>>> +	cs[2] = IEC958_AES2_CON_SOURCE_UNSPEC | IEC958_AES2_CON_CHANNEL_UNSPEC;
>>> +	cs[3] = IEC958_AES3_CON_CLOCK_1000PPM | fs;
>>> +
>> Pretty good, also suitable to rockchip platform, but why not add the
>> "IEC958_AES2_CON_CHANNEL_MASK" & "IEC958_AES2_CON_WORDLEN" ?
>>
>> Seems sample frequency & channle number & word length are the basic
>> message :)
> I was debating about the word length, and that's something I'll add
> later to it - but only if length shows that we have the 5th byte
> available in the buffer.  Most users seem to only use the first four
> bytes.
>
> As for the channel number, this is intentionally left to the driver -
> most cases I've found either the driver isn't interested, or where
> they are interested (the only case I know of is my dw_hdmi ahb audio
> driver), it's more appropriate to generate a baseline channel status,
> and let the driver iterate over the channels adding the appropriate
> channel number in.
Okay, agree with you to keep baseline channel status, but seems dw_hdmi
i2s audio are interested in channle number (to fill in schnl resigeters).

Best regards.
Yakir Yang