Re: [PATCH] udev: Allow ALSA input jacks to be accessed by the current user

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

At Fri, 17 Jun 2011 15:00:58 +0200,
Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17.06.11 14:51, Takashi Iwai (tiwai@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > At Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:45:52 +0200,
> > Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 17.06.11 14:42, Takashi Iwai (tiwai@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > If you have the patches ready to convert all drivers which currently can
> > > > > do jack sensing over to the new scheme with control elements, then we
> > > > > should probably focus on that for the future, shouldn't we?
> > > > 
> > > > For PA work, I suppose so (although I won't object to someone working
> > > > on the implementation with the present input-jack layer :)
> > > > But you can see David's patch basically independent from PA.
> > > 
> > > Well, but I'd guess that the access permissions only really matter for
> > > PA, right?
> > 
> > Not really.  For example, I was asked about the input-jack stuff by
> > a couple of vendors for their own products, apparently running without
> > PA.
> 
> Well, but the point I am trying to make: the embedded vendors are not
> interested in the automatic udev ACL management for the jack sensing
> input devices, right?

Ah, no, what I was asked weren't about ASoC but with HD-audio.
They were (so-called) multimedia-center devices, so small-factor PCs
indeed.  I don't know whether udev is used, but I won't be surprised
if they do.


Takashi
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