On 04/29/2017 09:04 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 12:21 +0800, Hui Wang wrote: >> Hello Tanu, >> >> Could you please take a look at this patch, you are the maintainer and >> recently contributed couple of commits to >> module-switch-on-port-available.c. :-) > Well, I'm trying to concentrate on preparing for the release, so I > don't do patch reviews much at the moment. Now that I read the commit > message, I have some comments, though. > >> On 04/27/2017 11:20 AM, Hui Wang wrote: >>> Suppose your machine has two sound cards as below: >>> >>> Card#0(HDA INTEL HDMI)-> Sink#0(hdmi-stereo)->hdmi-output(priority: 5900) >>> Card#1(HDA INTEL PCH)->Sink#1(analog-stereo)->headphones(priority: 9000) >>> >>> If neither hdmi cable nor headphone plug into the machine, the default >>> sink will randomly be Sink#0 or Sink#1, let us assume it is Sink#1, >>> then users plug hdmi cable into the machine, the port hdmi-output will >>> change to the state PA_AVAILABLE_YES, so the Sink#0 has a port with >>> state YES, while the Sink#1 still has a port with state NO, in this >>> situation it is reasonable to change the default_sink to Sink#0, but >>> current code can't do that. > This problem should be fixed by these two patches: > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/139179/ > https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/139178/ > > The patches have been reviewed, but I haven't yet pushed them. I'm not > sure if they'll be in the next release or not (I need to ask Georg and > Arun if they want to grant a freeze exception for these patches). > >>> Let us suppose another situation, both hdmi cable and headphone are >>> plugged into the machine, and the Sink#0 is the default sink, if users >>> unplug the hdmi cable, the port hdmi-output is changed to NO while >>> the port headphone is still kept YES, in this situation it is >>> reasonable to switch the default_sink to Sink#1, but current code >>> can't do that. > This should be fixed too by those two patches mentioned above. > Good to know that, look forward to those patches being merged to the mainline. :-) Thank you for your comment and thank you for your patches. Cheers, Hui.
