[pulseaudio-discuss] nomove property (for tunnels)

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 12.01.09 17:15, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote:

> > Hmm, PA_SINK_NETWORK was introduced for this very purpose. It is a
> > flag you can set if your sink is already wrapping some kind of network
> > device and hence it shouldn't be wrapped a second time. It doesn't
> > really matter if the protocol in question is our native protocol
> > (i.e. as in "tunneling") or is RAOP, or UPnP or whatever. We generally
> > should say that network sinks should always connect "as directly" as
> > possible.
> 
> 
> I feel entirely unoriginal :p
> 
> Just out of interest, where do you see flags vs. props going? Is it 
> worth trying to consolidate them a bit or is having both systems (which 
> arguably could do the same thing in many cases) still sensible for some 
> reason?

We need to keep compat for starters. However, even if that wasn't a
problem i'd probably keep both props and the flags field. Flags is
more for low-level control of a few things that are relevant to the
core itself. OTOH the props stuff is for a higher-level type of policy
which is not enforced by the core itself but by add-on policy
modules. The line between these kinds of policy is a blurred of
course, but I think clear enough to be a guide for future editions.

Lennart

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