On Wed, 2016-10-12 at 19:36 +0900, Takashi Sakamoto wrote:
On Oct 12 2016 14:10, Bastien Nocera wrote:
My questions are:
- does the USB audio driver support jack sensing?
- is this something standard that's just not implemented yet? In
which case, I'd be up for at least trying, given specs.
- or is it something that depends on the device, and in which case,
how would I find out?
In ALSA usb-related codes, there's no functions calls for snd_jack_*(), thus none of ALSA drivers for USB support Jack sense feature of ALSA control interface.
The requirement of Jack sense feature is whether hardwares support it. For example, some hardware codecs such as HDA codecs generates signals when plugs are insert to jacks connected to the codecs. Corresponding ALSA drivers catch the signals, then tell it to user land.
If your hardware performs like it, you have a probability to add support for jack sense feature to ALSA drivers for USB. But I don't know exactly that USB related specifications such as USB Audio Device Class 1.0/2.0/3.0 supports the feature.
Looks like whether or not jack sensing works depends on the device itself, but there is a mechanism to propagate the change in setup in the USB Audio 2.0 spec, in the "Interrupts" section: " A change of state in the audio function is most often caused by a certain event that takes place. An event can either be user-initiated or device-initiated. User-initiated jack insertion or removal is a typical example of a user-initiated event. "
I guess I should probably test in another operating system to check whether the hardware I have supports this to start with, and go from there.
Cheers