On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:14:04PM -0500, pl bossart wrote: > > Jack detect does not use the ALSA kernel subsystem but does instead > > use the input subsystem for jack status. It makes sense to create a > > new module so we can then use jack detect for non ALSA sound devices. > I'm a bit lost here. What are 'non ALSA sound devices'? > And to the best of my knowledge these events are only generated by > ALSA drivers... > Am I missing something here? These events can be generated by anything - prior to my implementing the ALSA support for this all the implementations in mainline were doing this via the gpio-keys driver since they were detecting a microswitch in the jack. I'd expect that non-audio jacks may also end up reporting via the same interface (video for example), but I'm not sure if Pulse would be interested in anything non-ALSA.
