On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 21:58 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > 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. Yeah, this was one of the considerations here along with any OSS audio cards (as there are still a few OSS drivers upstream). This can be moved and integrated into module-alsa-card if desired ? Liam
