Hi, We're aiming to get a PA 2.0 release out very soon (within the next 4 weeks).
I wasn't originally intending to request this release in mga2 purely because I wasn't aware that we were getting kernel 3.3 until recently (my bad). As you'll have seen from my reply to Thomas' announce about the kernel, and as we've now merged the relevant patches in upstream PA to make use of the new interfaces in kernel 3.3, I'd be very keen to push that we include PA 2.0 in mga2. The primary reason for this is jack detection. This has been a big feature that has been missing and it's taken a long time and a lot of cooperation to get the necessary features merged and available in the various layers. There is still work to do but the key parts will be working. We have bugs reported against mga1 regarding this topic. I'm confident that the changes in PA 2.0 are not risky and as upstream I'm in a good position to push updates and fixes later anyway if needed. Also being involved in an important part of linux plumbing and including the fruits of that labour in mga2 is good from a PR perspective (I have seen several comments long the lines of "it's good to see Mageia folks involved in plumbing" on e.g. lwn.net and similar). Anyway, this is my justification. I have packages ready to roll. Can this go it? I think it's worth it. Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/