[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v2 2/2] switch-on-port-available: deactivate direction when the no ports are available for that direction

[Georg Chini]

On 04.01.2018 14:49, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 15:35 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 08:52 +0100, Georg Chini wrote:
>>> On 03.01.2018 14:51, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
>>>> Your proposal sounds good, if I understand it correctly. I don't think
>>>> module-rescue-streams needs or should be involved, however.
>>> Don't we still need module-rescue-stream when a non-default HDMI
>>> sink is forcefully suspended? Or do you want to move the rescue
>>> functionality to the core?
>> I didn't think of this case. Moving rescuing to the core would make
>> sense to me, but for now I think it's fine to handle this in module-
>> rescue-streams. I think the rescue trigger should be a sink becoming
>> unavailable rather than suspended, though. If we were to use suspending
>> as the trigger, we'd anyway only do the move when the suspend cause is
>> PA_SUSPEND_UNAVAILABLE, and I don't see why we shouldn't rescue streams
>> that are left on unavailable sinks that are not suspended.
> Hmm... when the sink becomes available again, the rescued streams
> should be moved back to it. I think this functionality is not a good
> fit for module-rescue-streams. I think I'll put this stuff in the core
> instead, if you're ok with that.
>
Yes, I am fine with that. Basically it means that when a new sink
becomes available, you have to check the default sink if there is
any stream playing on it where the users choice is the just
appearing sink.