[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] alsa-mixer: Add workaround for some USB headsets

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David Henningsson at 06/04/11 07:39 did gyre and gimble:
>> While I appreciate this is a work around, is it worth committing
>> (especially to stable-queue) in the short term?
>>
>> We'll likely push out stable-queue very soon. If you've got a fairly
>> recent snapshot for Ubuntu already, then bumping the version to 0.9.23
>> should be uncontroversial (tho' version bumps may still be banned by
>> policy regardless).
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> Good question. Maybe it would make more sense for distro maintainers
> than upstream. I guess it also depends on when someone actually makes
> the fix the right way :-)

I'd say that the times scales for "fix the right way" are certainly
beyond the "release stable queue" time frame, so in that sense I'd be
happy enough to push this for now, fully accepting it's a kludge.

Col

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