Jon Smirl wrote: > On 7/12/07, Vasili Sviridov <vsviridov at exceede.com> wrote: > >> As a side-note - it would be nice to do it like hotplug does it - >> meaning - maintain a mapping between ugly sink names and nice and >> legible sink names. (or maybe renaming sinks in runtime and maintaining >> that as well, so it works after plug/unplug). >> > > HAL knows that my > alsa_output.usb_device_471_155_noserial_if0_alsa_playback_0 is a > "Philips PSC805" and that my > alsa_output.pci_device_8086_24d6_alsa_playback_0 is a "Intel ICH5 ALSA > Playback Device". > > Could different HAL names be used instead? > > It looks that lines 185 & 188 in module-hal-detect.c are responsibe for source's and sink's names. They just append HAL's device identifier. One can hook in there to do the replacement... V. V.
