A field report (GE-Proton 11-5, real DualSense on-host) surfaced the missing
constraint: haptics only work when the pad's card runs the Pro Audio profile —
because GE's route opens the node through its bundled pipewire-alsa plugin
with aux_channels=1, and its pulse fallback forces a PA AUX0..3 map with
stream.dont-remix (proton-ds5-haptic patches 0013/0115/0116: "the hidden
PipeWire parent for a DualSense output exposes AUX0 through AUX3"). A
positioned FL FR RL RR sink puts those writers through position channelmix
instead of index passthrough.
The sink now advertises AUX0..AUX3. Proven on the box: an AUX-mapped
rear-pair-only tone captures index-exact (speaker pair 0.0000, coil pair
0.3662); a positioned stray stream folds into the speaker pair and never
excites the coils. The devtest reports per-pair peaks so exactly this class
of remix bug is visible.
Also confirmed from the GE patch set while here: device matching is
device.bus/vendor.id/product.id + the Sony/Wireless_Controller name
substrings (both of which the sink carries), and the MMDevice container is
now synthesized from the wine-side HID USB parent (patch 0112) — the old
pure-PW-node GUID_NULL concern no longer applies on GE >= 11-4.
The 0xD1 plane was Windows-host-only: host_cap() answered false and spawn()
was a stub everywhere else, so an Android tier-A client against a Linux host
negotiated the cap off and stayed on wire rumble. The whole downstream
machinery (framer, silence gate, lanes, 0xD1 send) was already capture-
agnostic — only the capturer was WASAPI.
- audio/linux/pad_sink.rs: one Audio/Sink stream node per DualSense-family
pad, minted with the identity the matchers read (ALSA-style node.name with
the pad's pairing MAC, description "Wireless Controller", bus/vendor/
product/form-factor proplist, per-pad serial), 4-ch F32 48 kHz FL FR RL RR,
no default-sink claim, priority.session 50. The process() callback IS the
capture. PUNKTFUNK_PAD_SINK_NAME/_DESC override the strings for field
debugging ({pad}/{mac} expand).
- native/pad_audio.rs: the shared logic and lanes compile on Linux;
pad_audio_thread is generic over the capturer (open-with-backoff kept);
host_cap() Linux arm = client asked + PUNKTFUNK_PAD_AUDIO + a reachable
PipeWire socket; spawn() Linux arm mints the sink lazily in the streamer
thread. spawn() gains an edge flag (Edge identity; ignored on Windows).
- devtest pad-sink-test: mint one sink and capture from it, no client — the
WP3 on-glass gate. Verified on a Bazzite 44 host: identity served through
pipewire-pulse, rear-pair (voice-coil) tone captured bit-exact over both
the native and pulse legs.
- docs: PUNKTFUNK_PAD_AUDIO{,_SLOTS} are no longer (Windows); the roadmap
non-goal narrows to Bluetooth client pads.
Gates (fedora:44 container, natively on the .41 box): cargo build --release
--locked (nvenc+vulkan-encode), clippy --all-targets -D warnings, cargo test
pad_audio+pad_sink 11/11, cargo fmt.
enricobuehler