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Yeah, if it can't be used in pulse which is found in our target distros I'd say its probably better to wait, we don't generally want to keep that type of development code in our mainline but a fork on github is the way to go about it I would say, that way other pulseaudio bleeding edge users can use your fork if they wish. When they merge in their branch and distros start having (or they will have it until our next release is going in) you can submit a pull request and we will pull it in if we want.

Awesome to see that the pulseaudio fellows finally are working on this, it has been such a pain that they haven't had support for this already.

Also, you might want to check out gnif's AE branch, this will be merged into mainline hopefully before eden so it might make sense if you target that with your patches. It is still in somewhat of a flux but most of the interfaces ought to be stable now.