[alsa-devel] [PATCH alsa-lib 1/1] doc: Fix typo in PCM formats

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Wed Mar 28 17:42:20 CEST 2012


At Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:54:47 +0200,
Adrian Knoth wrote:
> 
> Of course, 24bit samples are not stored in three bits, but bytes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi


> diff --git a/src/pcm/pcm.c b/src/pcm/pcm.c
> index ea1afdc..18b43b3 100644
> --- a/src/pcm/pcm.c
> +++ b/src/pcm/pcm.c
> @@ -209,13 +209,13 @@ The device is physicaly disconnected. It does not accept any I/O calls in this s
>  \section pcm_formats PCM formats
>  
>  The full list of formats present the #snd_pcm_format_t type.
> -The 24-bit linear samples uses 32-bit physical space, but the sample is
> -stored in low three bits. Some hardware does not support processing of full
> +The 24-bit linear samples use 32-bit physical space, but the sample is
> +stored in the lower three bytes. Some hardware does not support processing of full
>  range, thus you may get the significant bits for linear samples via
>  #snd_pcm_hw_params_get_sbits() function. The example: ICE1712
>  chips support 32-bit sample processing, but low byte is ignored (playback)
>  or zero (capture). The function snd_pcm_hw_params_get_sbits()
> -returns 24 in the case.
> +returns 24 in this case.
>  
>  \section alsa_transfers ALSA transfers
>  
> -- 
> 1.7.9.1
> 


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