I forgot it was tested in August, forgot to link the mail. https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/4/323 *It was actually this post that got me interested in getting the LED support finally include. Thanks, Jerone On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 21:57 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
