[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] alsa-lib: bring pcm.h and pcm.c in sync with the kernel list

[Jussi Laako]

> All audio formats are specified in *bytes* for sample and buffer sizes,
> so we will also keep it that way for DSD.

Umm, IIRC, all the ALSA PCM API snd_pcm_*_period_size() stuff is in 
number of frames? (number of samples per channel) Thus size of the 
buffer is period size * sample size * channels (* nperiods). So if we 
would use 2.8 MHz as sampling rate for DSD, then buffer size would be 
period size * 1/8 * channels, since one sample of DSD is eight' of a byte.

And sampling rate is number of frames per second. So it is quite clear 
and non-confusing.