[alsa-devel] [RFC] ASoC: snd_soc_jack for HDMI audio: does it make sense?

[Mark Brown]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 02:30:51PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 02:05 PM, Mark Brown wrote:

> >  - sound/core/ctljack.c which was added later and provides separate
> >    in-kernel and userspace APIs and is currently only used by HDA.

> This is wrong. PulseAudio uses the new ctljack API. I started out
> with an implementation which used the input device API
> (sound/core/jack.c), but since some people did not like this API,
> the ctljack API was designed and implemented for PA to use, which it
> does (since PulseAudio 2.0 - the input device API implementation in
> PulseAudio was never merged upstream).

...and the only thing using this API to generate events is HDA which is
what I was talking about here given that this is a question from a
driver point of view.

> >What I'd like to see happening is that we merge ctljack into jack (since
> >only HDA is going to be affected by that change it seems like the right
> >direction to make the merge) and also add extcon support, I have looked
> >at the extcon support.

> I don't know either why we have two different interfaces for jack
> detection (not counting extcon) for driver writers. I think we
> should merge jack and ctljack, as long as that does not mean you
> break anything I'm relying on in ctljack.

> Maybe something for discussion at Plumbers?

We discussed this last time we all met and came to the above conclusion :/

> >Short term for drivers used on embedded systems I'd have to recommend
> >extcon rather than anything ALSA-specific.

> I thought that when Takashi did the new ctljack interface, that
> would effectively deprecate the old input device interface, and that
> ctljack was the new recommendation.

Android currently uses the out of tree version of the extcon ABI (like I
say it's where the code originated), and some OSs do use the input ABI
also but realistically if you've got to pick one Android is where the
market is at.

To my knowledge no embedded OS is using the control jacks, it's possible
that there's something using them as a function of using PulseAudio but
the ones I'm famililar with currently ignore PulseAudio routing and just
use the mixing facilities.  Given the dependency on alsa-lib it'd be an
inconvenient ABI to adopt for most of them.
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