[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Add HDMI 5.1 and 7.1 profiles to default.conf as well

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 15:11 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> 
> On 2014-07-13 16:07, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > If they're added to default.conf, they should be added to
> > extra-hdmi.conf (it only has 5.1), force-speaker.conf and
> > force-speaker-and-int-mic.conf too. And before you say anything, yes,
> > this duplication is bad, feel free to fix it. I believe it would work if
> > the other files would include default.conf, the syntax is
> >
> > .include default.conf
> 
> Slightly off-topic:
> 
> Not sure it would work for force-speaker.conf and 
> force-speaker-and-int-mic.conf (e g analog-stereo would be present in 
> both, and they're different), and I didn't know about this syntax feature.

You're right, default.conf can't be included as is. We could have a
common.conf that contains the parts that are the same in every profile
set. analog-stereo would not be included in common.conf.

> Anyway, these profile files are only needed for Ubuntu 12.04 3.2 kernel 
> and the 3.4 LTS kernel. We could consider removing that workaround at 
> some time...

Oh, ok, I didn't know they're unnecessary on newer kernels. Yes, we
should drop them at some point, but I guess now is not the time.

-- 
Tan