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[Daniel Chen <seven.steps@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 5, 2011 4:34 AM, "David Henningsson" <david.henningsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I wanted to brief you a little about that I'm currently working on
rewriting PulseAudio's input mixer profiles, so the typical HDA
laptop/desktop will actually work, and will fit with the volume control
names in 2.6.38. I e, when you move the input meter in gnome-volume-control,
it will combine e g "Front Mic Boost" and "Capture" to give the user the
correct input volume.

Excellent!

> I'm not sure that this is completely regression free (for very
non-standard volume control names), and I'm also not sure whether it will be
too invasive to go into upstream's stable-queue. That said, the benefits
greatly outweighs the risks IMO.

We have to be a bit "fearless" now if we want things to work well in the
next LTS. It sounds like just the right thing to do.

> Also there is my fighting-rewinds work which is under testing. So far I've
heard four or five happy users (in the lp bug report), and one regression
report (the latter from upstream), which hasn't come back with more details.
There are three fixes in PA and two in GStreamer. (Btw, Daniel T Chen was
talking about SRUing one of the GStreamer fixes into 10.10.)

Unfortunately I've run out of time before my four-month assignment (I return
in June), so I won't be able to spearhead this effort. Certainly I think
that we should get them into Natty ASAP for testing and possible inclusion
into maverick-proposed.

> So, is anybody against putting these two projects into Natty, preferably
by getting upstream inclusion, but until that is done, carrying the fixes as
a delta?

No protest from me. Let's get them done.

Best,
-Dan