Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jul 2013 13:40:23 +0100 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ALSA: SoC: Added jack detection kcontrol support |
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 02:11:44PM -0700, Felipe Tonello wrote:
> My question is: Why ALSA Jack support uses evdev input events to > notify user-space? Is there any user-space relying on that? If no, I > would like to change ALSA Jack implementation to only use KControl and > remove specific implementations.
This was the existing kernel API at the time that the code was added - I beleive people had been doing that for simple switches that detect the physical presence of a jack since it looks exactly like a button from a hardware point of view. See the original commit adding the code. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |