This keeps the original head pointer intact, so that we can effectively
free the list later. If we use the head pointer to iterate, then at the
end we are not freeing anything because the pointer is NULL
This should be considered a configuration error: the user has
specified some component in the config file that cannot be loaded.
Changing the configuration file should fix it.
Since the wireplumber configuration has been moved to /usr/share/pipewire, it
does not makes sense to have a different path for the WIREPLUMBER_CONFIG_DIR
environment variable. Therefore, the WIREPLUMBER_CONFIG_DIR environment variable
has been changed to just be an alias of PIPEWIRE_CONFIG_DIR. Finally, Lua
scripts are now installed under /usr/share/wireplumber/scripts instead of
/usr/share/pipewire/scripts as they are a wireplumber feature only.
This change completely refactors the way components are loaded in wireplumber:
- The module_init() function must return a GObject now. This object is either
a WpPlugin or a WpSiFactory in the current modules.
- When the component loader initializes a module, it automatically registers
the WpPlugin or WpSiFactory with their respective methods. There is no need
to register the WpPlugin or WpSiFactory in the module now.
- The wp_core_load_component() API has been refactored to be asynchronows. This
allows the component loader to automatically activate WpPlugin objects, and
therefore allows the application to directly get the WpPlugin without having
to find it. This simplifies a lot of things.
- The 'ifexists' and 'nofail' component flags now work even if the respective
WpPlugin could not be activated.
- The code that loads components in main.c has also been simplified a lot,
and the option to load dangling components has also been removed.
This removes both the policy-virtual-client.lua and policy-virtual-device.lua
scripts, and creates a new linking/find-virtual-target.lua script to link
clients with virtual session items if one of them can be found. In addition to
this, this patch also ports the policy-virtual-client-links.lua into a new
scripts/rescan-virtual-links.lua to use the event stack. The idea is for the
scripts/link-target.lua to create all links but only activate non virtual links,
and for the scripts/rescan-virtual-links.lua to activate/deactivate virtual
links based on role priorities.
This patch also moves nested configuration objects that are not considered
settings from the wireplumber.settings section to its own configuration
section (eg the rules array, the spa plugin properties, etc...). This allows
those objects to be merged with other same sections defined in other files.
When in error, attempt to execute a step called "error", if it exists.
This is rarely needed, but it might be useful in some cases to cleanup
some state, rolling back changes, when something fails.
