[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: Integrate control based jack reporting with core jack reporting

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 06:34:49PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> First of all, we don't agree yet which naming rule to be applied.
> Since your patch assumes the case B, i.e. constant names corresponding
> only to the key type (HEADPHONE, etc), it's incompatible with the
> current implementation in HD-audio.

As I've *repeatedly* said the idea was to prefix the name once we'd got
stuff merged into the same file (which means ripping out the HDA
specific code) but if we're going to have to completely rework the ABI
before you'll consider trying to fix things up in kernel then there's no
point bothering.

> In other words, if I merge your patch now, the only solution for
> HD-audio side for the time being is to disable
> CONFIG_SND_HDA_INPUT_JACK.  That's why I hesitate to merge it now.

Well, that whole config option just shouldn't be there in the first
place but that's another story...

> And, it's why I prefer defining the naming rule at first, thus
> refining the implementation not to conflict with the existing one.

It seems like it's a bit late to worry about the naming scheme to that
extent given that the existing ABI has already managed to get into one
kernel release and looks like it's also going to get into 3.4 as well.

Right now the only tractable fix I can see is to implement something
approximating the HDA ABI in ASoC but that just makes things even worse
from a maintability point of view.
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