[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] [module-loopback] Add PA_SOURCE_OUTPUT_DONT_MOVE flag of source-output to make the module-loopback unloading when the A2DP source ware unavailable

[Cai Yuanqing]

  Hi Colin:

On 12/22/2010 05:23 PM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Cai Yuanqing at 22/12/10 06:25 did gyre and gimble:
>> I wrote a patch to make the module-loopback unloading as bluetooth
>> source was unavailable.
>>
>> In my opinion ,moving the source of source-output from a live source
>> like A2DP source to default or any other ones dose not work.only
>> module-loopback loaded and can not work any more.
>> So I just want to make the module-loopback can not be moved when the
>> source is a A2DP source of bluetooth.
>
> While this is Pierre-Louis Bossart's module and I'd like to hear his
> opinion on it, I'm not personally a big fan of this kind of heuristic.
>
> If you care to add a new argument to the module called e.g. "dont_move"
> that adds in the appropriate flag to the sink input or source output,
> then I think this would be a better and more deterministic behaviour. It
> would obviously only make sense when used with the source= or sink=
> arguments.
Thanks for your suggestion,I  will try to add some arguments like 
this,It's a good way to avoid some bad effect we don't know so far. :-)
>> BTW,I'm not sure that should we unload the modules when the source it
>> using were unavailable in the other situations.
>> Dose anyone have ideas for that?
> I'm kind of of the same opinion. I prefer to see modules (and this
> applies to others like remap, combine etc.) "idle" when their tightly
> bound sink/sources are no longer available and then "kick in"
> automatically when they appear. This kind of logic would allow for more
> things to be added to a user's customised default.pa and automatically
> work when appropriate.
>
> Col
>
Yes,but add the logic may need to change the logical of 
module-rescue-streams or we need a new module to do things right.


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Cai Yuanqing