diff --git a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
index 108cae459ed097c04c3e39a4b10882ccd6f3c190..840d624148df0772f0c7a295d40ce74c8bdd5a4a 100644
--- a/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
+++ b/include/sound/simple_card_utils.h
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ int asoc_simple_card_parse_clk(struct device *dev,
 			       struct device_node *dai_of_node,
 			       struct asoc_simple_dai *simple_dai,
 			       const char *name);
+int asoc_simple_card_clk_enable(struct asoc_simple_dai *dai);
+void asoc_simple_card_clk_disable(struct asoc_simple_dai *dai);
 
 #define asoc_simple_card_parse_cpu(node, dai_link,				\
 				   list_name, cells_name, is_single_link)	\
diff --git a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
index d9d8b8a58348e27304a05763e42c12d168134c0a..beb4e3817d22f9d1894288ee1392c63ab802bc22 100644
--- a/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
+++ b/sound/soc/generic/simple-card-utils.c
@@ -110,6 +110,22 @@ int asoc_simple_card_parse_card_name(struct snd_soc_card *card,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(asoc_simple_card_parse_card_name);
 
+static void asoc_simple_card_clk_register(struct asoc_simple_dai *dai,
+					  struct clk *clk)
+{
+	dai->clk = clk;
+}
+
+int asoc_simple_card_clk_enable(struct asoc_simple_dai *dai)
+{
+	return clk_prepare_enable(dai->clk);
+}
+
+void asoc_simple_card_clk_disable(struct asoc_simple_dai *dai)
+{
+	clk_disable_unprepare(dai->clk);
+}
+
 int asoc_simple_card_parse_clk(struct device *dev,
 			       struct device_node *node,
 			       struct device_node *dai_of_node,
@@ -128,7 +144,8 @@ int asoc_simple_card_parse_clk(struct device *dev,
 	clk = devm_get_clk_from_child(dev, node, NULL);
 	if (!IS_ERR(clk)) {
 		simple_dai->sysclk = clk_get_rate(clk);
-		simple_dai->clk = clk;
+
+		asoc_simple_card_clk_register(simple_dai, clk);
 	} else if (!of_property_read_u32(node, "system-clock-frequency", &val)) {
 		simple_dai->sysclk = val;
 	} else {