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+What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/buffer/length_align_bytes
+KernelVersion: 5.4
+Contact: linux-iio@vger.kernel.org
+Description:
+ DMA buffers tend to have a alignment requirement for the
+ buffers. If this alignment requirement is not met samples might
+ be dropped from the buffer.
+
+ This property reports the alignment requirements in bytes.
+ This means that the buffer size in bytes needs to be a integer
+ multiple of the number reported by this file.
+
+ The alignment requirements in number of sample sets will depend
+ on the enabled channels and the bytes per channel. This means
+ that the alignment requirement in samples sets might change
+ depending on which and how many channels are enabled. Whereas
+ the alignment requirement reported in bytes by this property
+ will remain static and does not depend on which channels are
+ enabled.