[alsa-devel] Device creation order

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 05.04.09 21:16, Wu Fengguang (fengguang.wu at intel.com) wrote:

> > I'll ignore this for now since Jaroslav mentioned drivers doing this
> > are still experimental. But eventually we'd need to know some kind of
> > 'end notification' for this as well: i..e if the reconfiguration
> > causes multiple device nodes to disappear/appear we also need to know
> > when they are all complete. A possible simple fix would be to issue an
> > udev 'change' event on the control device after the reconfiguration
> > finished.
> 
> btw, HDMI sink devices could be taught to generate more event types:
> 
> - hotplug
>   The user connected/disconnected a HDMI device.

Wouldn't that overlap with the jack sensing API? 

> - reconfiguration
>   The update of HDMI audio capabilities due to some user actions.
> 
> - pause/play of audio stream
>   An advanced feature in Consumer Electronics Control (CEC) for
>   high-level user control of HDMI-connected devices.

What would these be?

> 
> The HDMI audio devices will be created at module loading time, and
> won't be dynamically created/tear down on hotplug events.  I wonder 
> if PA is interested in the HDMI current-connectivity state?

Yes, we certainly are. I am not entirely sure though how to best
expose this. 

Lennart

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