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

[David Henningsson]

On 02/04/2013 09:59 AM, Mikel Astiz wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Yes, I've held the opinion for quite some time now that sinks/sources
>> should be merged with ports. It's a big change and doesn't bring any new
>> features in itself, so I don't consider it as a high-priority thing, but
>> patches are welcome.
>
> Is there any ongoing effort to move this forward? Is there a consensus
> about the 1:1 mapping between ports and sink/sources?

No, and no.

> We decided Immediately before 3.0 that some Bluetooth ports should be
> merged (commit 40329acc1a28145643e49207e9d65cd05bbda2c8) but this is
> basically UI-oriented and not very convenient for internal use, as
> already discussed.
>
> In this case, I was tracking down a issue we have in
> module-bluetooth-device, and the solution would be much simpler if we
> had independent ports.

So; if port are merged with sinks/sources, I assume you would like this 
merged object to be once per stream (i e different for a2dp and 
hfp/hsp), which would again break the UI?

This looks like a problem with the approach of trying to merge ports and 
sinks/sources.

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