On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 01:38:50PM +0200, Clément Péron wrote:
> From: Marcus Cooper <codekipper@gmail.com>
> 
> On the newer SoCs such as the H3 and A64 this is set by default
> to transfer a 0 after each sample in each slot. However the A10
> and A20 SoCs that this driver was developed on had a default
> setting where it padded the audio gain with zeros.
> 
> This isn't a problem while we have only support for 16bit audio
> but with larger sample resolution rates in the pipeline then SEXT
> bits should be cleared so that they also pad at the LSB. Without
> this the audio gets distorted.
> 
> Set sign extend sample for all the sunxi generations even if they
> are not affected. This will keep coherency and avoid relying on
> default.

Isn't it coherence? But I guess consistency would be a better fit here.

Maxime