[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] profile-switcher: New module to switch card profiles based on roles

[Arun Raghavan]

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 22:56 +0800, Lin, Mengdong wrote:
> > > How about making profile switch more general?
> > >
> > > 1. When a card adds a new profile, add a property "intended roles" to the
> > profile, same as what we do to a device:
> > >   Add a line to proplist.h
> > >   #define PA_PROP_DEVICE_PROFILE_DESCRIPTION     "device.profile.
> > intended_roles"
> > 
> > Other than on Bluetooth (and *maybe* USB devices with sufficient
> > metadata), there really isn't a way to accurately tag a sink (especially
> > ALSA sink) with an intended role.
> > 
> > > 2. Then the module-device-switch can query the profile intended roles and
> > select the best profile for a stream.
> > >
> > > Is this doable? If yes, I can write a patch for it and change the Bluetooth
> > device module to add "phone" property for "hsp" profile?
> > 
> > This is already done in the bluetooth module.
> > 
> 
> My suggestions is to *not* to tag a sink with an intended role, but to tag a profile with an intended role. 
> So the module-profile-switch can set the best profile for a steam.
> 
> For an ALSA card, I think it can also has different profiles for different purpose. e.g. surround profile for HiFi, and stereo input+output profile for phone.

Ah, sorry, I misread your suggestion earlier. I'm not sure this is the
right approach. The intended role really is a property of the sink, not
the profile. The main problem being that we can't see sinks that will be
created by a profile.

I think this came up before, possibly in some jack detection discussion,
but perhaps there is room to create some sort of dormant sink(s)
attached to a profile that is not usable for routing but can be looked
at for such purposes.

-- Arun