[alsa-devel] Auto-muting line-outs?

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:53:45AM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> I'm getting bug reports from downstream about auto-muting not working,
> and when looking at some of them I find that the reason is that they
> have a headphone + line-out combination instead of headphone + speaker.

> Looking at commits such as 2a2ed0df, this is intentional. I'm not sure
> what the majority of users want or expect in this case though, of course
> the users who like it the way it is, aren't raising their voices. :-)

I'd certainly expect line outputs to stay live regardless of headphone
state - there's just too much diversity in what they could be connected
to to allow that sort of automated handling in kernel.