[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 0/2] Support for forcing old protocol versions.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 13/06/11 17:46 did gyre and gimble:
> That said, I think both the configuration methods that I provided
> originally should be left as is. The environment variable allows the
> user to run just one application with the version limit without having
> to worry about other apps. Similarly, the setting in daemon.conf might
> be too coarse for some use cases: the user may want to load the tcp
> module with some limit, but leave the unix module using the normal
> protocol version.

Yeah, I reckoned that the env var would be useful too, and I'm
relatively indifferent about the modarg, but I guess there is not
specific reason to remove it now that it's there. Your example about it
being per-transport (e.g. native-socket == latest, native-tcp == older)
is a good one, even if the primary use case for this is paprefs's tcp
loading which could still trip us up.

Perhaps the modarg version could take -1 as the protocol version which
means "the latest" that way, default.pa could be modified (by the user -
I don't suggest shipping it like this), to have -1 when loading the
native protcol, but daemon.conf could have the limited version... the
modarg taking priority would mean that socket protocol would be the
latest but the paprefs loaded -tcp would be limited.

I've probably described that terribly, but in contrast to this morning's
ramblings, I'm not tied because of a long day :p


> I'll post a couple of patches in the near future that add support for
> daemon.conf and client.conf configuration. Or do you want that I merge
> those features into the two patches that I already sent, and resend the
> patches?

What ever you fancy :) Either way is good for me!

Col

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