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

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