Re: [PATCH] audio/dbus: make "dbus" the default backend when using -display dbus

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Mon, 3 Nov 2025 at 10:02, <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
>
> Set "using_dbus_display" during early_dbus_init(), so that we can try to
> create the "dbus" audio backend by default from audio_prio_list.
>
> This makes dbus audio work by default when using an audio device,
> without having to setup and wire up the -audiodev manually.
>
> The added FIXME is addressed in the coming up cleanup series.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
> ---
>  audio/audio.c     |  3 +++
>  audio/dbusaudio.c |  8 +++++++-
>  ui/dbus.c         | 17 +++++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Shouldn't we be documenting this somewhere? Having -display
affect the audio is a bit non-obvious : generally we prefer
to have options be orthogonal and the user to specify what
they want rather than trying for "do what I mean" behaviour.

-- PMM