diff --git a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7acc798016e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * simple_card_core.h
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#ifndef __SIMPLE_CARD_CORE_H
+#define __SIMPLE_CARD_CORE_H
+
+#include <sound/soc.h>
+
+int asoc_simple_card_parse_daifmt(struct device *dev,
+				  struct device_node *node,
+				  struct device_node *codec,
+				  char *prefix,
+				  unsigned int *retfmt);
+
+#endif /* __SIMPLE_CARD_CORE_H */
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/Kconfig b/sound/soc/generic/Kconfig
index 610f61251640..26c2fe6a0b93 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/Kconfig
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/Kconfig
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+config SND_SIMPLE_CARD_UTILS
+       tristate
+
 config SND_SIMPLE_CARD
 	tristate "ASoC Simple sound card support"
 	help
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/Makefile b/sound/soc/generic/Makefile
index 9c3b246792bf..45602ca8536e 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/Makefile
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+obj-$(CONFIG_SND_SIMPLE_CARD_UTILS) := simple-card-utils.o
+
 snd-soc-simple-card-objs	:= simple-card.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_SND_SIMPLE_CARD)	+= snd-soc-simple-card.o
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3f6b72526f71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/*
+ * simple-card-core.c
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#include <linux/of.h>
+#include <sound/simple_card_utils.h>
+
+int asoc_simple_card_parse_daifmt(struct device *dev,
+				  struct device_node *node,
+				  struct device_node *codec,
+				  char *prefix,
+				  unsigned int *retfmt)
+{
+	struct device_node *bitclkmaster = NULL;
+	struct device_node *framemaster = NULL;
+	int prefix_len = prefix ? strlen(prefix) : 0;
+	unsigned int daifmt;
+
+	daifmt = snd_soc_of_parse_daifmt(node, prefix,
+					 &bitclkmaster, &framemaster);
+	daifmt &= ~SND_SOC_DAIFMT_MASTER_MASK;
+
+	if (prefix_len && !bitclkmaster && !framemaster) {
+		/*
+		 * No dai-link level and master setting was not found from
+		 * sound node level, revert back to legacy DT parsing and
+		 * take the settings from codec node.
+		 */
+		dev_dbg(dev, "Revert to legacy daifmt parsing\n");
+
+		daifmt = snd_soc_of_parse_daifmt(codec, NULL, NULL, NULL) |
+			(daifmt & ~SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CLOCK_MASK);
+	} else {
+		if (codec == bitclkmaster)
+			daifmt |= (codec == framemaster) ?
+				SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFM : SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFS;
+		else
+			daifmt |= (codec == framemaster) ?
+				SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFM : SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFS;
+	}
+
+	of_node_put(bitclkmaster);
+	of_node_put(framemaster);
+
+	*retfmt = daifmt;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_card_parse_daifmt);