in dai startup() and disabled with
                                          clk_disable_unprepare() in dai
                                          shutdown().
+                                         If a clock is specified and a
+                                         multiplication factor is given with
+                                         mclk-fs, the clock will be set to the
+                                         calculated mclk frequency when the
+                                         stream starts.
 - system-clock-direction-out           : specifies clock direction as 'out' on
                                          initialization. It is useful for some aCPUs with
                                          fixed clocks.
 
        asoc_simple_card_clk_disable(&dai_props->codec_dai);
 }
 
+static int asoc_simple_set_clk_rate(struct asoc_simple_dai *simple_dai,
+                                   unsigned long rate)
+{
+       if (!simple_dai->clk)
+               return 0;
+
+       if (clk_get_rate(simple_dai->clk) == rate)
+               return 0;
+
+       return clk_set_rate(simple_dai->clk, rate);
+}
+
 static int asoc_simple_card_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
                                      struct snd_pcm_hw_params *params)
 {
 
        if (mclk_fs) {
                mclk = params_rate(params) * mclk_fs;
+
+               ret = asoc_simple_set_clk_rate(&dai_props->codec_dai, mclk);
+               if (ret < 0)
+                       return ret;
+
+               ret = asoc_simple_set_clk_rate(&dai_props->cpu_dai, mclk);
+               if (ret < 0)
+                       return ret;
+
                ret = snd_soc_dai_set_sysclk(codec_dai, 0, mclk,
                                             SND_SOC_CLOCK_IN);
                if (ret && ret != -ENOTSUPP)