[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Introduce "available" concept for ports, and communicate that to clients. Bump protocol version to 24.

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

> Did you miss my previous explanation, or did you find it insufficient?
> I'm repeating it below:
> 
> "The protocol skew in Ubuntu 11.10 was actually a mistake on my part.
> Since the UI changes that would depend on this information being
> available was backed out, I probably should have backed the actual
> protocol change out as well.
> 
> Anyway, here is the patch that forms one of the base features for jack
> detection, and brings upstream out of protocol skew with Ubuntu 11.10."

I honestly did not understand the explanation, most likely because I use
Fedora for historical reasons and have no idea about the content of Ubuntu
11.10...What type of client will make use of this information?
-Pierre