[alsa-devel] Jack event API - decision needed

[Takashi Iwai]

At Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:52:37 +0100,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:35:00PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Also, we may consider some way to expose the corelation of the jack
> > control element and other mixer elements.  Though, this sounds
> > optional to me for the time being.
> 
> From that point of view it'd be much better to do this as part of
> exposing the full routing map and positioning of the controls within the
> map to applications - there has been some discussion about using the
> media controller API to do that within the context of ASoC though not
> much work on actually implementing it yet.  This would solve a lot of
> problems with figuring out how the card fits together that we have
> currently.

Yeah, that'd be another option.  Though, I don't know what actually PA
would need for the jack-detection for the current implementation...


Takashi