Re: [PATCH] udev: Allow ALSA input jacks to be accessed by the current user

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At Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:45:52 +0200,
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17.06.11 14:42, Takashi Iwai (tiwai@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > > If you have the patches ready to convert all drivers which currently can
> > > do jack sensing over to the new scheme with control elements, then we
> > > should probably focus on that for the future, shouldn't we?
> > 
> > For PA work, I suppose so (although I won't object to someone working
> > on the implementation with the present input-jack layer :)
> > But you can see David's patch basically independent from PA.
> 
> Well, but I'd guess that the access permissions only really matter for
> PA, right?

Not really.  For example, I was asked about the input-jack stuff by
a couple of vendors for their own products, apparently running without
PA.

> So if we say that proper jack sensing via control elements is
> the way to go, then PA should adopt this new scheme and this new scheme
> only, and not bother with the input device cruft, and the udev patch
> should not be merged either as PA would be its only consumer...

I would be against the patch if the change were too intrusive,
but this change itself looks small enough to me.
The question whether PA should use it or not is a different thing.


thanks,

Takashi
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