Docs/sound: Add documentation for userspace-driven ALSA timers
authorIvan Orlov <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>
Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:06:59 +0000 (13:06 +0100)
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Sun, 18 Aug 2024 07:55:54 +0000 (09:55 +0200)
commit8fad71b6771afc1f12f1cdf616ae0fca628802e9
treeefc0fc0162b51ad76b5f569f951bd9a5cc88b877
parente949df0b021cdd503c4e72db12b1b4154a82d698
Docs/sound: Add documentation for userspace-driven ALSA timers

Add the documentation which describes the new userspace-driven timers
API introduced in this patch series. The documentation contains:

- Description of userspace-driven ALSA timers, what they are for
- Description of the timers API
- Example of how the timers can be created and triggered
- How the timers can be used as a timer sources for snd-aloop module

Suggested-by: Axel Holzinger <aholzinger@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240813120701.171743-3-ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com
Documentation/sound/index.rst
Documentation/sound/utimers.rst [new file with mode: 0644]