[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC 0/3] Automatically enable loopback on sources

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Frederic,

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Dalleau, Frederic
<frederic.dalleau at intel.com> wrote:
> This is good question.
>
> Current patch include a configuration, so either the user is fine with the
> default sink or he do not use the feature at all :D
>
> However, the following possibilities can be written :
> 1) statically configure another sink in configuration file.
> 2) Use the intended role : "music", or "voice"
> 3) Other audio policy?
>
> All these scenario can be resumed into a call to function that returns the
> desired sink.
>
> Number 1) is too restrictive.
> We could imagine the loopback is an application, so number 2) make sense.
> Number 3) would for sure require an external module to avoid
> module-bluetooth-device depending on a policy module.

I got the impression that we are going forward with the idea of a
policy module for PA, no idea if in the end it would load a policy or
make a decision based on intent role, but anyways IMO the routing
decisions should not be in module-bluetooth-discover.

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Luiz Augusto von Dentz