[alsa-devel] arecord: does hardware or software throw away unused

[Clemens Ladisch]

Rob Nertney wrote:
> My hardware is putting a stream of MAX_CHANNELS into memory, and firing the
> IRQs on my period boundary with respect to this full MAX_CHANNELS stream.
> [...]
> will arecord see the MAX_CHANNELS in my driver, and use its *software*
> to strip out the upper channels worth of data automatically for me?

Yes.


Regards,
Clemens