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From: <paco@hydrofunk.org>
To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org
Subject: fragment size using emu10k1
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:36:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-sound-95565226702283@msgid-missing> (raw)

Hi...

I've noticed a problem using the ioctl SNDCTL_DSP_GETBLKSIZE with my
SBPCI512.  I'm not familiar with the underlying workings of the sound
driver (emu10k1), and I really don't know if this is a kernel problem or a
driver problem.

The problem is simple, when you issue the GETBLKSIZE call, the value that
is reported back is wrong by a power of 2.  The call will report that the
buffer size is "X" Bytes, but it is really only of size "X/2" Bytes.

This can cause problems in applications that attempt to use this
information for malloc calls, or for applications that need to write
data to the card in full fragments at a time.

--Paco

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