On 09/07/2012 12:01 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Fri, 7 Sep 2012 07:25:44 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
The purpose of this flag is unclear. If the problem is that some machines have broken misc/NO_PRESENCE bits, they should be fixed by pin fixups.
In addition, this causes jack detection functionality to be flawed on the M31EI, where there are two jacks without jack detection (which is properly marked as NO_PRESENCE), but due to ignore_misc_bit, these jacks are instead being reported as being present but always unplugged.
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/939161 Signed-off-by: David Henningsson david.henningsson@canonical.com
So this will fix this one case but will break some others certainly. It's a difficult to judge, but more removal is better, so I'll take this.
Ok. Do you have a sense for how many machines that will regress due to this patch? If it is common to set all pins to the wrong value, maybe its the M31EI that is the exception.
But I still wonder why PulseAudio cares the headphone jack state even though this has only one output at all?
When seeing the system as a whole, there can be other outputs on other cards - HDMI, USB etc. If somebody e g plugs a USB headset in it will be simpler for the user if PulseAudio does not also show the unplugged 3.5 mm jack.