[pulseaudio-tickets] [Bug 44793] Unique names for ports

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44793

--- Comment #1 from Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Now, logging being slightly inconvenient may not be the most convincing
> argument when the requested change would be relatively big. So, here's
> another argument: we will anyway have to make the name unique, because it
> would be awesome if pa_connect_playback() could take a port name in it's dev
> argument - if the requested port isn't active, it will be automatically made
> active. And we're going to merge the sink and port concepts anyway, aren't
> we, so all this makes just perfect sense, right?

An update: we probably aren't going to merge the sink and port concepts. As for
using a port name with pa_connect_playback(): while that would be nice, we
should get even better capabilities with the upcoming nodes.
pa_connect_playback() (or some alternative function) could take a node name as
the routing target, making even more targets available (e.g. source outputs).

This doesn't mean that we couldn't or shouldn't make port names unique, but it
does make my original argument somewhat weaker.

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