On 10/13/20 10:16 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > On 14-10-2020 07:07, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On 10/13/20 9:56 PM, Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > >>> I.e.: it looks like I will lose some funcionality when I disable >>> SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK. >> >> OK. At present you can't have it both ways, i.e., SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK >> with no LEDS. That driver apparently wants LEDS. > > Thanks but why have I gone for years without LEDS? > I do not need LEDS, I do not want LEDS, I do not have LEDS (that are > visible, usable, etc). > > Please make this selectable instead of forcing more bulk into my kernel. > > Kind regards, > Udo Hi Takashi, Regarding commit 7cdf8c49b1df0a385db06c4f9a5ba1b16510fdcc Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 18 13:08:31 2020 +0200 ALSA: hda: generic: Add a helper for mic-mute LED with LED classdev and this Kconfig entry: config SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK tristate "Build Realtek HD-audio codec support" select SND_HDA_GENERIC select SND_HDA_GENERIC_LEDS it seems that LED support is not always wanted (please see above). I.e., user(s) would like to build a kernel without LED support at all. Can you make it a build option? thanks. -- ~Randy