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1*4882a593SmuzhiyunWhat:		/sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/buffer/length_align_bytes
2*4882a593SmuzhiyunKernelVersion:	5.4
3*4882a593SmuzhiyunContact:	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
4*4882a593SmuzhiyunDescription:
5*4882a593Smuzhiyun		DMA buffers tend to have a alignment requirement for the
6*4882a593Smuzhiyun		buffers. If this alignment requirement is not met samples might
7*4882a593Smuzhiyun		be dropped from the buffer.
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9*4882a593Smuzhiyun		This property reports the alignment requirements in bytes.
10*4882a593Smuzhiyun		This means that the buffer size in bytes needs to be a integer
11*4882a593Smuzhiyun		multiple of the number reported by this file.
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13*4882a593Smuzhiyun		The alignment requirements in number of sample sets will depend
14*4882a593Smuzhiyun		on the enabled channels and the bytes per channel. This means
15*4882a593Smuzhiyun		that the alignment requirement in samples sets might change
16*4882a593Smuzhiyun		depending on which and how many channels are enabled. Whereas
17*4882a593Smuzhiyun		the alignment requirement reported in bytes by this property
18*4882a593Smuzhiyun		will remain static and does not depend on which channels are
19*4882a593Smuzhiyun		enabled.
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