On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 17:24 +0800, Lin, Mengdong wrote: > How about making profile switch more general? > > 1. When a card adds a new profile, add a property "intended roles" to the profile, same as what we do to a device: > Add a line to proplist.h > #define PA_PROP_DEVICE_PROFILE_DESCRIPTION "device.profile. intended_roles" > > And change the API to create a profile: > From pa_card_profile *pa_card_profile_new(const char *name, const char *description, size_t extra); > To pa_card_profile *pa_card_profile_new(const char *name, pa_profile_new_data *data); > The "pa_profile_new_data" structure can contain both a description and the intended roles property. Other than on Bluetooth (and *maybe* USB devices with sufficient metadata), there really isn't a way to accurately tag a sink (especially ALSA sink) with an intended role. > 2. Then the module-device-switch can query the profile intended roles and select the best profile for a stream. > > Is this doable? If yes, I can write a patch for it and change the Bluetooth device module to add "phone" property for "hsp" profile? This is already done in the bluetooth module. Regards, Arun
