On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:12:16 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Tue 2018-11-20 13:19:26, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:51:59 +0100, > > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > You have general-purpose LED, yet you are treating it as "something > > > > > special". That means ugly code (quoted above) and lack of flexibility. > > > > > > > > > > For example, if my notebook lacks HDD LED, I can use scrollock LED for > > > > > that instead. Or, in reverse way, maybe "mic mute" LED is not useful > > > > > for me, and I'd like to use it for notifications instead. > > > > > > > > I'm not against adding the LEDs device implementation for any exotic > > > > usage. > > > > > > > > But for the audio mute LED features, you'll need really lots of other > > > > works if it were implemented via leds device. That's the hardest > > > > part, and a few lines of hooks solves it easily in the kernel side. > > > > That's all about it. > > > > > > > > If you are ready for submitting the real solutions in user-space side > > > > (patching PulseAudio and whatever all existing sound daemons, and > > > > creating yet another daemon for non-PA systems (another footprint, > > > > lovely), and so on), we can happily delete such in-kernel hooks :) > > > > > > I'm not saying we should move it to the userspace. > > > > > > I'm saying this should be "normal" led. drivers/leds/led-huawei-acpi.c, > > > or something. Perhaps this acpi stuff is so similar you don't really > > > need .c code. > > > > > > And then there should be a "mic muted" trigger. Similar to > > > drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-disk.c. > > > > And who will trigger this, e.g. when the mixer is muted? > > Same code that does it now. But it needs the binding, and currently it's done by querying the exported symbol. So we do need still that API. Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
