On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 15:00 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 30.04.2015 14:49, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-04-30 at 11:07 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > >> > >> On 2015-04-27 13:34, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > >>> +# For Terratec Aureon Dual USB. > >>> +# > >>> +# See analog-output.conf.common for an explanation on the directives. > >>> + > >>> +[General] > >>> +description-key = output-speaker > >> > >> Why don't you just reuse the existing analog-output-speaker > >> description-key here? > > > > Because this path may be digital. > > I wonder whether, with USB devices, a situation is more common that we > know whether the path is analog or digital, or that we don't know. Or > even a corner case where the distinction doesn't really apply. The wild > question: does it make sense to treat (as far as port descriptions are > concerned) USB outputs as something neither analog nor digital, but as a > special case, unless we know better (e.g. by seeing the substring > "headset" in the device name)? I don't have any data to answer these questions. Without data I'd say that we shouldn't do any changes. -- Tanu
