On Mon, 07 Nov 2011, Jerone Young wrote: > Back in May Andy Lutomirski submitted a patch to add mic mute button > functionality to thinkpad acpi. It appears that the only issue is that > it was submitted to the wrong list, and got caught up in kernel.org/Alsa > discussion of standardize the naming scheme. All I ask is that people with access to other thinkpads test that led so that we know it is really the mic led on all thinkpads with a mic, and not something else in the other Lenovo thinkpads. That said, the MIC led is NOT a safe LED. You do NOT want for it to be easy to lie to you that the MIC is off when it is not off. As far as I know, unlike the cellphone industry, *we* are not in the business of making it trivial to random third-parties to turn the devices we write the operating system for into stealth spy drones. > The disscussion can be found here: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/1962 I'm not amused. We have LED triggers for a reason, ALSA should provide a generic set of useful LED triggers hooked to the standard mixer controls, and I'd be happy to hook them to the platform LEDs. Userspace should not be in the loop for something like this, unless there really is no other way. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
