[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC v1 3/6] cli: Show card profile availability status

[Mikel Astiz]

Hi David,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:44 AM, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 09:10 AM, Mikel Astiz wrote:
>>
>> From: Mikel Astiz <mikel.astiz at bmw-carit.de>
>>
>> Expose the newly added card profile availability in pacmd.
>
>
> This raises the interesting question of whether to expose the profile
> availability. As I understand it, this is mostly for internal use right now
> and that _AVAILABLE_NO (for profiles) is an rarely seen edge case. Is this
> correct?
>
> As such, I think it's okay to expose in pacmd, but until we have a real use
> case, we shouldn't make it part of the protocol and client API. Does that
> make sense?

It definitely makes sense to me. Such an extension to the core should
have a validation phase to make sure the feature is actually required,
so I agree that it shouldn't be exposed in the external APIs yet.

Cheers,
Mikel