On Tue, 08 Nov 2011, Jerone Young wrote: > Is there a reason this is not a safe LED? It seems to fit with the on and > off capabilities of the other LEDS that are exposed through thinkpad-acpi. > Unlike speaker mute button, this does nothing in hardware. See my mail to alsa-devel, you were CC'd on it. I'd like to tie it to the mux state inside the kernel, and keep it unavailable to userspace. Not as good as a proper mic-mute implementation inside the EC, but better than depending on userspace to keep the LED state correct. > It ultimately is a userspace activity and it's userspace that makes sure > the LED is in a correct state for the user. Yeah, and that's el-cheap-o crap design (never mind it is what everyone else does), but hopefully we can make it better. -- "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
