[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: Integrate control based jack reporting with core jack reporting

[David Henningsson]

On 02/08/2012 12:46 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:36:21AM +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
>> On 02/07/2012 08:48 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
>
>> I'd like these to match the names currently used in HDA, like this:
>
>> 	{ SW_MICROPHONE_INSERT, "Mic" },
>
> It seems odd to abbreviate this and nothing else but I'm not that
> fussed either way.
>
>> 	{ SW_LINEOUT_INSERT, "Line-Out" },
>> 	{ SW_VIDEOOUT_INSERT, "Video-Out" },
>
> For these it's really not normal English to hyphenate them, it looks
> strange to do so.

I guess it could be easier to parse if we avoid spaces in names, but 
right now there is no such parser AFAIK anyway, so it does not matter 
much. Video-Out is not present in HDA; I did that change to make it 
consistent with "Line-Out".

>> 	{ SW_LINEIN_INSERT, "Line" },
>
> It seems odd and a bit undescriptive to not specify the description here
> when it is specified for the outputs?
>
>> Actually, it matters less if we settle on the standard you set
>> above, or what the HDA currently does, as long as the names are the
>> same.
>
> Except for Mic where I don't mind either way I'd rather bring the HDA
> names into (but note that the idea is to remove the HDA specific jack
> controls - I think these names are used in other places though?).

I'll let Takashi have the final say about the names. But note that for 
HDA these names will not be enough, e g, we might have one "Front Mic" 
and one "Rear Mic" and need to know which one is which.

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