[PATCH v1 0/2] ASoC/tda998x: Fix reporting of nonexistent capture streams

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:46:42PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> The recently added pcm-test selftest has pointed out that systems with
> the tda998x driver end up advertising that they support capture when in
> reality as far as I can see the tda998x devices are transmit only.  The
> DAIs registered through hdmi-codec are bidirectional, meaning that for
> I2S systems when combined with a typical bidrectional CPU DAI the
> overall capability of the PCM is bidirectional.  In most cases the I2S
> links will clock OK but no useful audio will be returned which isn't so
> bad but we should still not advertise the useless capability, and some
> systems may notice problems for example due to pinmux management.
> 
> This is happening due to the hdmi-codec helpers not providing any
> mechanism for indicating unidirectional audio so add one and use it in
> the tda998x driver.  It is likely other hdmi-codec users are also
> affected but I don't have those systems to hand.
> 
> Mark Brown (2):
>   ASoC: hdmi-codec: Allow playback and capture to be disabled
>   drm: tda99x: Don't advertise non-existent capture support
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i2c/tda998x_drv.c |  2 ++
>  include/sound/hdmi-codec.h        |  4 ++++
>  sound/soc/codecs/hdmi-codec.c     | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  3 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Looks sane.

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>

Thanks.

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