[systemd-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Don't use ALSA card id in ID_ID

[Adam Goode]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net
> wrote:

> On Tue, 21.04.15 17:45, Adam Goode (agoode at google.com) wrote:
>
> > The ALSA id sysattr is generated by the sound subsystem and is not
> > a stable identifier. It is generated though some string manipulation
> > then made unique if there is a conflict. This means that it is
> > enumeration-dependent and shouldn't be used for ID_ID.
> >
> > If ID_ID is supposed to be system-unique, it is not already since
> > for firewire it is generated from the guid and there are broken
> > firewire devices that have duplicate guids across devices.
> >
> > This is tracked for PulseAudio at
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90129.
>
> Please also mention that commit that this effectvily reverts, see
> earlier discussion.
>
>
I now include this in the commit message (as well as linking to the bug).
See v3.


Thanks,

Adam
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