[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 2/8] alsa: Reinitialise the mixer on port change.

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:31 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 13/07/11 14:41 did gyre and gimble:
> > On Thu, 2011-07-07 at 10:55 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> This allows us to flip from software to hardware volume control as the port's
> >> mixer path dictates.
> > 
> > I don't really like the pa_sink_set_flags_from_callbacks() function,
> > because the sink implementations have to remember to call it whenever
> > they change the callbacks. I propose that we add
> > pa_sink_set_get_volume_callback() etc, and do the flag updates and
> > subscription notification inside those functions. What do you think?
> 
> Do we want to do the subscription notifications inside such functions or
> all at once? Will it really matter if we register 10 subscription
> notifications - does that group it up into just 1 if they are redundant?

Redundant change events are dropped, so there's no significant penalty
of generating 10 events for one transaction.

> I guess in principle I'm not against it, other than it adds a bit to the
> number of functions here and arguably bloats the internal API.
> Especially as these flags are not super important in a practical sense
> and don't really get used much

Despite this bloat I think having the setter functions would be cleaner.
It's not a big deal if you think otherwise - as you say, the practical
implications are rather small.

-- 
Tanu