On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:36:57PM +0200, Philippe Bekaert wrote: > Though I have 40 years of experience with c, and was a Linux user since 91, > I’m often scratching my head studying the alsa driver core. It’s really not > so easy … Not only driver code, the user space API docs have the same problem, and it's a common one with doxygen generated 'documentation'. Have a look at <https://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/alsa-lib/group___p_c_m___s_w___params.html> 'Set period event inside a software configuration container.' 'Set silence size inside a software configuration container.' 'Set silence threshold inside a software configuration container.' etc. etc. None of these descriptions tell you anything you wouldn't know from the actual function name. They are completely useless. But *nowhere* (AFAIK) it is explained what a 'period event' is, or why I should bother to set a 'silence threshold' or 'silence size'. You could as well try to learn a new language given only a dictionary. Ciao, -- FA _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
