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

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 19:46 +0200, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> 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.

I think the intended role is actually a property of the port, not the
sink. And I think David's patches that are waiting for someone to review
them (I'll try to do it this week) already change ports so that they are
available as long as the card exists...

-- 
Tanu