On Thu, 2016-08-18 at 07:51 -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > I recently switched from a JBL Flip 2 which supports both HSP and HFP > to an Ultimate Ears Boom 2 which is HFP only.  Needless to say this > currently means that the Ultimate Ears fails to work with pulseaudio > because we only support HSP via the native backend.  The first thing to > note is that we can easily get HFP running in pulseaudio via a quick > hack to switch support from HSP to HFP (see patch below) because if you > don't negotiate protocols on HFP it looks pretty much like HSP for the > audio stream.  Unfortunately, doing this would break half the headsets > out there which only support HSP, so the hack is for demo purposes > only. > > I think the fix is to expose HFP and HSP separately as different > pulseaudio profiles.  This would also allow negotiating useful HFP > features, like wideband audio, which HSP doesn't support.  It would > also mean that people currently using HSP would continue, even if they > had HFP and that headsets which support both will show both in the PA > configuration possibilities.  If people are OK with this approach, I > can produce a patch set. I was under the impression that supporting HFP would have to be much more complex than that. If that one-line hack really is sufficient for getting audio moving, I think it makes sense to add HFP support to the native backend. I see you already went ahead and produced a more complete patch :) I'll have a look shortly. -- Tanu
