On 11 February 2016 at 06:52, Mihai Moldovan <ionic at ionic.de> wrote: > Regarding this, I submitted another patch a year ago that doesn't skip devices > with more channels than supported, but only exposes as many channels as > supported by PulseAudio. > > I guess it would be beneficial to decide how to proceed on that front: either > drop devices with an unsupported number of channels completely, or restrict the > channels so that PA can still handle the device (and leave the other channels > "empty")? > > My original idea of still using the device might not make most sense or be > ideal, but I felt that completely dropping it would be weird as well. What's > your take? I think dropping them makes sense. Either the device works as intended (all channels) or it doesn't. Sounds weird to me that someone would be okay with some but not all channels working. -- Arun
