[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 528060] Removing a mixer device does not remove it from gnome-sound-properties

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------- Comment #8 from Jens Granseuer  2008-04-17 17:42 UTC -------
> I only glanced at the code, but it seems to me that this is only true for ALSA
> devices.

For additions, true. But assuming HAL supported OSS, removals should work
afaics.

> (On a side note, this is all a bit awkward. IMO the hal->alsa device mapping
> code should really live in halaudiosink and then be queried via the GstProperty
> interfaces, or ideally some kind of new GstDeviceProbe interface which makes
> all the interesting information like the device, the name/description etc.
> available in one swoop)

I'm not sure what that would mean, exactly (what with all the gstreamer
jargon), but I'm certainly not going to argue that having to query HAL directly
feels a bit tacked on.

> I don't know if hal covers oss devices, but if it does you're ignoring them
> from the looks of it.

Sam, do you know whether HAL is supposed to support OSS?


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