forcing two channel output

[Andriy Gapon]

on 02/09/2009 13:01 Alexander Motin said the following:
> 
> HDA controllers have limitations on number of data streams. You can see
> it if boot with hw.snd.verbose=4. Usually there are 4 streams supported.
> snd_hda allocates them statically now, one device - one data stream. So
> you just could hit this limitation because of big number of devices. It
> would be good to allocate streams dynamically on open, but it is not
> implemented now.
> 

Is this something that could tweak locally - bump some limit or slightly change
some logic?
What should I look for in the source code?

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Andriy Gapon