Re: [PATCH] ALSA: HDA: Add jack detection for HDMI

[David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>]

On 2011-05-20 23:59, Stephen Warren wrote:
> David Henningsson wrote at Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:47 AM:
>> Just as for headphones and microphone jacks, this patch adds reporting
>> of HDMI jack status through the input layer.
>>
>> I considered making additional SND_JACK_* constants for HDMI and
>> Displayport instead of going with SND_JACK_VIDEOOUT, but it didn't seem
>> worth the additions, and breakage of compiling with old kernels, etc.
>> Let me know if you think otherwise and I'll prepare a second patch for
>> that.
>
> One more thought on this:
>
> Some of our older HW (MCP6x, MCP7x chipsets) doesn't support unsolicited
> responses, nor PD/ELDV/ELD data. If PulseAudio is updated to listen to
> these new jack events on kernels where the input files are present,
> that'll presumably cause it never to allow use of the HDMI sinks on those
> chipsets. I don't know if other vendors have this issue or not.
>
> In that case, can we do one of:
>
> * Not create the jack/input files at all.
>
> * Immediately mark the jack as "present".
>
> I assume the latter would be easier for user-space to deal with; it'd be
> more in line with the kernel abstracting HW differences.
>

Ok, thanks for the input (no pun intended ;-) ). If they support 
presence detect, we could create a polling loop. Otherwise, don't create 
the jack.

Is this autodetectable or do we have to quirk it?

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