From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E71EC43441 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:18:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F10520684 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 13:18:07 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 0F10520684 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ucw.cz Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2395250AbeKVX5X (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:57:23 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:43142 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727034AbeKVX5X (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:57:23 -0500 Received: by atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz (Postfix, from userid 512) id 7449E80789; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:17:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:18:02 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Takashi Iwai , Ayman Bagabas , ALSA Development Mailing List , Hui Wang , Andy Shevchenko , Darren Hart , Jaroslav Kysela , Kailang Yang , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Platform Driver Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] ALSA: hda: add support for Huawei WMI micmute LED Message-ID: <20181122131802.GB13339@amd> References: <20181108171701.4444-4-ayman.bagabas@gmail.com> <20181119235713.GB7367@amd> <20181120091039.GA16916@amd> <20181120093610.GF16916@amd> <20181120115159.GG16916@amd> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu 2018-11-22 13:36:43, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:19 PM Takashi Iwai wrote: > > > > On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:51:59 +0100, > > Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > You have general-purpose LED, yet you are treating it as "somethi= ng > > > > > special". That means ugly code (quoted above) and lack of flexibi= lity. > > > > > > > > > > For example, if my notebook lacks HDD LED, I can use scrollock LE= D for > > > > > that instead. Or, in reverse way, maybe "mic mute" LED is not use= ful > > > > > for me, and I'd like to use it for notifications instead. > > > > > > > > I'm not against adding the LEDs device implementation for any exotic > > > > usage. > > > > > > > > But for the audio mute LED features, you'll need really lots of oth= er > > > > works if it were implemented via leds device. That's the hardest > > > > part, and a few lines of hooks solves it easily in the kernel side. > > > > That's all about it. > > > > > > > > If you are ready for submitting the real solutions in user-space si= de > > > > (patching PulseAudio and whatever all existing sound daemons, and > > > > creating yet another daemon for non-PA systems (another footprint, > > > > lovely), and so on), we can happily delete such in-kernel hooks :) > > > > > > I'm not saying we should move it to the userspace. > > > > > > I'm saying this should be "normal" led. drivers/leds/led-huawei-acpi.= c, > > > or something. Perhaps this acpi stuff is so similar you don't really > > > need .c code. > > > > > > And then there should be a "mic muted" trigger. Similar to > > > drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-disk.c. > > > > And who will trigger this, e.g. when the mixer is muted? >=20 > Is this settled? I'm encouraged to promote this series to our for-next br= anch. I'd prefer this to be normal LED and "mic muted" to become normal trigger. Pavel --=20 (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlv2rIoACgkQMOfwapXb+vLZ5wCfewOeVToe6MPLBy+FfxIJ6IQj LbQAn3WL7JCKPHSqp71aCj7pjhWp7eJo =vYC4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc--