[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 00/11] Routing: Move routing policy code out of module-alsa-card

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sun, 2013-11-24 at 08:48 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> Who manages and owns the connections? If there's no router, the core
> will of course need to manage the connections. The natural owner for
> sink input connections in this case is pa_sink_input. If there is a
> router, then connections may be created by the router, and I think it
> makes sense in that case to make the router also the owner of the
> connections, so freeing the connections is then also the responsibility
> of the router. Hopefully it won't become too complex to tell apart
> connections owned by the core and connections owned by a router.

Arguing with myself... It starts to feel like a better idea to not have
any specific owner for connections (or formally pa_core could be the
owner). If a router sets up a bunch of connections and then the router
module is unloaded, those connections shouldn't be removed, and I don't
want to play any ownership transfer games either.

Hmm, actually, once I add routing domains to the system, then the
routing domain will be the right place to store the connections. When a
domain is removed, all connections in that domain should be removed too.
Until domains are added, however, pa_core shall be the place for holding
the connections.

-- 
Tanu