[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH] HDA: Generic input jack handling

[David Henningsson]

On 10/07/2011 03:03 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:46:07 +0200,
> David Henningsson wrote:
>>
>> On 10/07/2011 02:08 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> At Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:49:46 +0200,
>>> David Henningsson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, this is what I had in mind for 3.2. Assuming positive feedback from
>>>> Takashi I'll go ahead and make a real patch out of this, and to clean up
>>>> the Realtek implementation, as well as probably add this method for more
>>>> codecs.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts:
>>>>
>>>> 1) The unsol event tags vary wildly between different vendors. How about
>>>> standardising that as well?
>>>
>>> Generalization is good.  But tags aren't always constant.  It'd be
>>> better to assign each tag dynamically like in patch_sigmatel.c.
>>> The reason is that you'd need to know the pin NID from the unsol
>>> event, so the tag has to be unique even for the same purpose.  E.g. if
>>> a machine has two headphones, both are the same type but they should
>>> issue unsol events with different tags.
>>
>> One would think that this is an area where it shouldn't differ between
>> vendors (after all, they need to do the same things, so this is just
>> different implementations), but we can clean that up later, and when
>> that is done we could consider standardising on having the nid as the
>> unsol tag value.
>> Anyway, as the patch below stands, sigmatel would call the function with
>> unsol_tags->unsol_tag = 0, and then enable the jack itself.
>>
>> Did you think the patch looked good otherwise?
>
> Reporting per jack type isn't necessarily correct, e.g. when multiple
> pins for the same type are present.  In that case, only the changed
> pin should be reported.  So, in patch_realtek.c, the tag should be
> also individual for each pin like in patch_sigmatel.c.
> Currently it's using constants because of the model quirks.  Once when
> these are removed, we can move to the dynamic allocation.

Ok. I was afraid you would consider such a change too big to reach 3.2, 
and current handling does not make things worse, really - it's just 
slightly inoptimal to detect one more jack, but does not hurt much.
Would you like me to add an associate tag -> nid array?

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