[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: HDA: Add jack detection for HDMI

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 17 May 2011 12:09:47 -0500,
pl bossart wrote:
> 
> >> a) Is it possible to report more information alongside the plug events,
> >> such as ELD/EDID content? Or, is the idea that the kernel sends a plug
> >> event, and then user-space retrieves that information via some other
> >> API? I don't think there's an API to retrieve ELD information at present
> >> though right? Although certainly it'd make sense for that to be a
> >> completely separate patch.
> >
> > A simple approach would be adding a control element containing
> > byte-array of ELD/EDID.
> 
> Are there any examples of such controls? Or are we talking about a new
> kind of control?

Look for SNDRV_CTL_ELEM_TYPE_BYTES.  Some codecs provide these.

> We could really use this ELD information in PulseAudio now that the
> passthrough mode is in git master; for now the codecs supported by the
> receiver are hard-coded, not a very reliable solution...


Takashi