snd_hda_mult...alog_prepare(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💜 snd_hda_mult...alog_prepare(9)

hiii bestie 🫶 welcome to the Kernel API Manual — yes the title up top got truncated with ... like it's shy or something, but it's the one and only snd_hda_mult...alog_prepare(9) and we're gonna get into it. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

snd_hda_multi_out_analog_prepare — Preapre the analog outputs.

(and yes the original literally says "Preapre" 😭 not me fixing it, we don't do that here, the typo is canon 💅)

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int snd_hda_multi_out_analog_prepare (struct hda_codec *codec , struct
hda_multi_out *mout , unsigned int stream_tag , unsigned int format ,
struct snd_pcm_substream *substream );

okay so it's a function, it takes five things, and it returns an int. slay. 🎀

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

like five whole besties walk into a function call:

  • codec — the HDA codec. this is the codec, the main character 👑
  • mout — an hda_multi_out object. that's your multi-out situation
  • stream_tag — the stream tag to assign 🏷️
  • format — the format id to assign. yes, another thing being assigned, we stay assigning
  • substream — the PCM substream to assign 🎧

⭐ DESCRIPTION ⭐

so what does it do? Set up the i/o for analog out. that's the whole vibe. 🔥

and here's the little extra the docs throw in: when the digital out is available, copy the front out to digital out, too. like, if digital's in the group chat, front out gets forwarded there as well. periodt. ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bestie there is a WHOLE friend group here, and we are not leaving anybody out of the mentions. first up, the location:

  • Kernel file ./sound/hda/common/codec.c

then the entire squad, all of them (9) pages, all of them invited: 💖

like I said. everybody. nobody gets left on read 💀

🎀 and that's the whole page bestie — that's genuinely everything the manpage had to say, so go forth and set up that analog i/o, you're gonna do amazing 💖

mwah, ily, this one came from ./sound/hda/common and it's dated October 2026 — so yeah, it's giving future, it's giving timeless, it's giving snd_hda_mult...alog_prepare(9) forever and always. 🌸🦋✨

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