Re: [PATCH] Set osi=Linux for the ThinkPad X200s

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On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 05:07 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:24:50PM -0500, Len Brown wrote:
> 
> > Have these been verified as necessary to make sound work on
> > the specified models, or are these speculative patches?
> 
> To clarify - these patches do *nothing* to make sound work. They change 
> the behaviour of the mute key from changing the hardware state of the 
> mixer and not sending a key event to instead sending a key event and 
> requring that software perform the change. 

It's more then cosmetic. On my X301 .. the headphone jack will not mute
without this if you do not have osi=Linux.

	
			Jerone

> The behavioural change is 
> primarily cosmetic rather than functional. I'm not convinced that this 
> is a sensible thing to do at this point in the release cycle, given that 
> we have no testing of what other behavioural changes the firmware may 
> make.
> 


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