[alsa-devel] [PATCH v5 7/9] ASoC: bt-sco: extend rate and add a general compatible string
Garlic Tseng
garlic.tseng at mediatek.com
Thu Jun 30 19:49:46 PDT 2016
On Thu, 2016-06-30 at 20:55 +0800, Garlic Tseng wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-06-29 at 20:15 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 03:43:58PM +0800, Garlic Tseng wrote:
> > > Add supports for 16k (wideband BT) and add a general compatible
> > > string "linux,bt-sco"
> >
> > This will claim that we support 16k on existing systems which we clearly
> > don't. It also seems unwise to advertise multiple rates when we've no
> > way to configure the rates... how does the BT controller figure out
> > what the sample rate is?
>
> The codec driver is a dummy driver for bt device and actually do
> nothing. The user-space will control both bt part and alsa part (at
> least in mt2701 platform). Yes the sound/soc/codecs/bt-sco.c was only
> support 8k and was already there before the patch, but I think it might
> be ok to extend it to 16k without any side effect.
>
> If you worry about some potential risk (I don't see any) maybe we have
> to develop another dummy bt-sco codec driver which support both 8k and
> 16k?
Ah! If someone whose bluetooth modules only support 8k use the driver,
they might be broken, right? Maybe we can add another snd_soc_dai_driver
which can support both 8k and 16k.
(Actually I found the issue is discussed before
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2014-November/084687.html )
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