From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Brown Subject: Re: Jack reporting v2 Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:23:01 +0100 Message-ID: <20080606142300.GE24872@sirena.org.uk> References: <1212095345928-git-send-email-broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> <20080603104048.GA17007@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> <20080603105920.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> <20080603233813.GA30512@sirena.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cassiel.sirena.org.uk (cassiel.sirena.org.uk [80.68.93.111]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F9A1037EF for ; Fri, 6 Jun 2008 16:23:03 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080603233813.GA30512@sirena.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Takashi Iwai , mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:38:14AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > There is an additional motivation for using an input device for jacks - > it is common to support a button implemented by shorting the microphone > connection as well as simply detecting the presence of something in the > jack. Dimitry, do you have any further thoughts on this? Due to jacks being able to function as buttons as well as switches I do prefer the use of input devices for jack reporting but if you still disagree I'll redo the patch since I don't feel *that* strongly.