[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v1 0/3] bluetooth: Headset port availability

[David Henningsson]

On 11/27/2012 02:35 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> Hi Mikel,
>
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Mikel Astiz <mikel.astiz.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Luiz,
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:17 PM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
>> <luiz.dentz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Mikel,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Mikel Astiz <mikel.astiz.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> From: Mikel Astiz <mikel.astiz at bmw-carit.de>
>>>>
>>>> This patchset extends the previous patch (resent unmodified here) with the policy change suggested by Tanu.
>>>>
>>>> It seems no conclusion was reached about the names etc. but I believe this is the best alternative without the form factor and in any case the strings can easily be changed during/after pushing.
>>>>
>>>> Mikel Astiz (3):
>>>>    bluetooth: Merge headset ports into one
>>>>    bluetooth: Disable profile auto-switch policy for headsets
>>>>    conf: Load bluetooth-policy module by default
>>>>
>>>>   src/daemon/default.pa.in                        |  4 ++
>>>>   src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-device.c | 72 ++++++++++++++++++-------
>>>>   src/modules/bluetooth/module-bluetooth-policy.c |  4 ++
>>>>   3 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> 1.7.11.7
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to see some good reasoning to do these changes, how we
>>
>> There was a long IRC discussion about this and the conclusion was that
>> introducing independent ports for A2DP and HSP/HFP headsets was a
>> regression (as first pointed out in [1]). There was no general
>> consensus but this seems the most strict interpretation of a port,
>> which represents a physical device no matter the underlying protocols.
>
> Im not sure I follow, my interpretation was that the ports were per
> sinks/sources just as the sinks and sources are per profiles

This is no longer true - e g, on the ALSA side we have (since 1.0 or 
2.0, don't remember) shared ports for different profiles, e g, the 
"Analog Output" port can be used with both a "Stereo" and a "5.1 
Surround" profile.



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