Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] ALSA: hda/realtek: Add COEF controlled micmute LED support

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:15:21 +0200,
Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > On Jun 17, 2020, at 23:50, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:24:30 +0200,
> > Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> On Jun 17, 2020, at 19:55, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:29:01 +0200,
> >>> Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Currently, HDA codec LED class can only be used by GPIO controlled LED.
> >>>> However, there are some new systems that control LED via COEF instead of
> >>>> GPIO.
> >>>> 
> >>>> In order to support those systems, create a new helper that can be
> >>>> facilitated by both COEF controlled and GPIO controlled LED.
> >>>> 
> >>>> In addition to that, add LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME flag since some systems
> >>>> don't restore the LED properly after suspend.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks for the quick follow up, the issues I pointed were fixed.
> >>> 
> >>> But, now looking at the code change again, I'm no longer sure whether
> >>> it's the right move.
> >>> 
> >>> Basically, the led cdev should serve only for turning on/off the LED
> >>> as given.  But your patch changes it to call the generic mixer
> >>> updater, which is rather the one who would call the led cdev state
> >>> update itself.  That is, it's other way round.
> >>> 
> >>> IMO, what we need is to make all places calling
> >>> snd_hda_gen_add_micmute_led() to create led cdev, and change those
> >>> calls with snd_hda_gen_fixup_micmute_led().
> >> 
> >> Ok, so it's the same as patch v1.
> >> How should we handle vendors other than HP?
> >> Only create led cdev if the ID matches to HP?
> > 
> > It's fine to create a LED classdev for other vendors, too.  But the
> > problem is that it wasn't consistent.  With the LED classdev, we
> > should use only cdev, instead of mixing up different ways.
> 
> Ok, now I get what you meant...
> 
> > 
> > I wrote a few patches to convert those mic-mute LED stuff to classdev,
> > including some cleanups.  The patches are found in
> > topic/hda-micmute-led branch of sound git tree.  Could you check it?
> > 
> > Note that it's totally untested.  Also it doesn't contain yet
> > LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME, which should be done in another patch in
> > anyway.
> 
> Other than LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME, it works great!
> 
> Tested-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>

Good to hear!

> >>> It'll be a bit more changes and likely not fitting with 5.8, but the
> >>> whole result will be more consistent.
> >> 
> >> A bit off topic, but do you think it's reasonable to also create led cdev for mute LED, in addition to micmute LED?
> >> I just found that the LEDs are still on during system suspend, and led cdev has the ability to turn off the LEDs on system suspend.
> > 
> > Yes, it makes sense, too.  But the playback mute handling is a bit
> > more complicated than the mic-mute LED because it's implemented with a
> > vmaster hook.  I'll take a look later.
> 
> Thanks. I'll be happy to test it.

OK, I worked on this further and converted the whole mute LED handling
with LED classdev.

The topic/hda-micmute-led branch was updated again.  Could you give it
a try?  If that's OK, I'll add your tested-by tag and submit the
patches to ML later.

The old patchset is saved in topic/hda-micmute-led-old branch just for
a reference.


thanks,

Takashi