comedi_samples_to_bytes(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

✨ comedi_samples_to_bytes — the "how many bytes is that, actually?" converter ✨

okay so this is a kernel API manual page, and the function is comedi_samples_to_bytes from the comedi world. pull up a chair bestie, this one's tiny but iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

comedi_samples_to_bytes — literally converts a number of samples into a number of bytes. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it slayfully ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

unsigned int comedi_samples_to_bytes (struct comedi_subdevice *s ,
unsigned int nsamples );

💖 ARGUMENTS 💖

  • s — the COMEDI subdevice. the main character of this whole operation 🫶
  • nsamples — number of samples. like, how many of them you got.

👑 RETURN 👑

she gives you back the number of samples multiplied by the subdevice sample size. math! ate and left no crumbs 🎀

⚠️ heads up bestie: this does not check for arithmetic overflow. so if you overflow it, that's on you, not her. no cap 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

Kernel file ./include/linux/comedi/comedidev.h, plus the whole friend group:

like, the whole squad. it's giving family reunion 🌈

and that's the page!! source lives at ./include/linux/comedi, dated October 2026 — she's a 2026 girlie fr fr, so when you're reading this in the kernel docs, remember who told you 💜 🧚‍♀️ ⭐

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