Need Better Docs re Dynamic Device Configuration

[jrush]

The docs are unclear on how to support a pluggable USB audio device and be able configure its settings and sink/source name. Approaches tried are:

1. Use of load-module fails if the device is not yet plugged in. 2. Use of add-autoload-* fails to enumerate device in drop-down lists until it is explicitly accessed, even though the device is indeed plugged in. 3. Use of module-hal-detect correctly detects and adds the device upon plug-in, but sacrifices any configurability of that device, especially giving it a user-meaningful name.

My choice would be to have module-hal-detect bump any ghost sinks/sources already defined for that device, making them non-ghosted now. But that would require some algorithm for matching up what HAL found with ghost definitions.

[lennart]

Yes, indeed. If you want hotplug and automagic configuration you lose the ability to seperately configure devices.

I am trying to get things to work in a way that as many things as possible are configured automatically, and the few things that require manual config can be done via a GUI.

Thus implementing what you request is not really on my list. But I will always consider good patches! ;-)

[lennart]

We now allow a good dea of reconfiguration during runtime via the ports/profile mechanism. I think this can be closed now.