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sound: Clarify userland/vchan relationship in sndstat feeder chain
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Authored by christos on Oct 31 2025, 6:22 PM.
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Summary

When vchans are enabled, the primary channels do not interact with
userland, but with the vchans.

With vchans enabled:

$ sndctl feederchain
dsp0.play.0.feederchain=[vchans -> [...] -> hardware]
dsp0.record.0.feederchain=[hardware -> [...] -> vchans]

With vchans disabled:

dsp0.play.0.feederchain=[userland -> [...] -> hardware]
dsp0.record.0.feederchain=[hardware -> [...] -> userland]

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