From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: Plumbers: Please split audio topics into separate sessions Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 12:15:19 +0100 Message-ID: <20120807111519.GY16861@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> References: <50201664.7000804@canonical.com> <50202500.5060607@canonical.com> <20120806222417.GF26698@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <5020B8AF.3090003@canonical.com> <5020CD16.6020705@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from opensource.wolfsonmicro.com (opensource.wolfsonmicro.com [80.75.67.52]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB2926501A for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2012 12:51:43 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5020CD16.6020705@canonical.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: David Henningsson Cc: Takashi Iwai , "alsa-devel@alsa-project.org" List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 10:08:54AM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > When shutting down, both PulseAudio and alsactl saves volumes to > restore them later. And then we also have suspend and hibernate to > consider, and that cards can be plugged in at any time. > This is mostly a problem statement. I don't have a good proposal for > how to simplify it. Isn't this a fairly simple Pulse/distro issue? It seems like alsactl is redundant for most distros now so they could just disable it by default meaning we just have to worry about the DM/user Pulse handover. For that I guess if Pulse does something the distros would be happy to just follow that?