[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 6/6] Alsa: add card ports and path probe cache

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:37 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> Having property lists on ports is something desirable for all of us. 
> Would you mind applying the patch I just posted? We could use that as a 
> base - I could add it to the client API I'm working on, and you could 
> work on parsing configuration files.

Yes, I'll probably push the patch soon (after this discussion about
whether to wait is finished).

> > The remaining issues:
> >
> >   * If mapping_probe_paths() fails to open the mixer, it's not handled
> > very well. If that happens, I think all paths should be removed from the
> > mapping's path sets.
> >   * pa_path_set.probed isn't really used for anything (pretty cosmetic
> > issue).
> >   * If profile probing is configured to be skipped, mapping_paths_probe()
> > won't be called, and path sets won't be created.
> >
> > Would you possibly have the time and energy to address these problems?
> 
> I think they are all good catches, and I just posted a patch to fix this 
> up (although I was lazy enough to use a goto for the last fix, maybe I 
> should refactor the entire function a bit?).

That would be nice. I think it would be also good to have the fixes in
separate patches.

> Ok. Maybe we should revert paths_dir altogether if nobody's else 
> depending on it?

Yes, I think so.

-- 
Tanu