[alsa-devel] Jack event API - decision needed

[David Henningsson]

Hi,

I'm still new in the community in that sense that I'm not sure how 
decisions are made. But I could use the outcome of such a decision.

Background: I'm trying to pull together the missing pieces of jack 
detection on both kernel / plumbing / application layers, so that when 
you plug something in (headset, microphone etc), userspace is notified 
and can take appropriate actions (e g routing decisions).

As part of that I wrote a udev patch a few days ago, which nobody 
commented on in alsa-devel [1], but was somewhat disliked by at least 
Kay Sievers who maintains udev [2], who preferred we would rewrite our 
input layer to do something else within ALSA.

So before I proceed further I'd like to know if

1) We're continuing the path with /dev/input devices

2a) We'll rewrite these devices to be read-only ALSA mixer controls

2b) We'll rewrite these devices to be something within ALSA, but not 
exactly mixer controls.

For options 2a) and 2b) I guess the existing /dev/input thing should be 
deprecated and/or removed. So part of decision should maybe be based on 
information about how widespread the usage of these devices are 
currently...?

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
http://launchpad.net/~diwic

[1] 
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2011-June/040916.html

[2] e g http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg04949.html