Bug#660111: multiple, non-physically accesible, HDMI devices (Re: pulseaudio: pa can't handle multiple HDMI devices)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:

> Do we still need to make kernel changes for wheezy, or does the new PA
> together with the current kernel package (version 3.2.19-1) avoid this
> problem?

I think Andres mentioned some patches that expose detected jack status
using kcontrols.

Andres, do you know of relevant commit ids?  Can you describe the
difference in behavior between 3.2.19-1 and 3.4.1-1~experimental.1 and
whether it's worth backporting these changes?

Thanks,
Jonathan