[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: hda: Make core jack usage unconditional

[Mark Brown]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 04:27:55PM -0700, David Henningsson wrote:
> 2012-08-27 11:53, Mark Brown skrev:
> >Currently the HDA drivers have a Kconfig variable SND_HDA_INPUT_JACK
> >which disables jack reporting via the ALSA core jack API. This is bad
> >since (modulo the current problems with the HDA-specific reporting
> >API) it means that all reporting mechanisms will get disabled, not just
> >input.

> Can you explain what other "reporting mechanisms" you are referring to?

The ctljack stuff when I wrote it - this is the first part of a patch
set intended to merge the in kernel APIs for this stuff but there's a
bunch of problems with the rest of the series so I never got round to
sending it.  I figured it did no harm in itself and makes things a
little more consistent to userspace.