Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] ALSA: hda: add support for Huawei WMI micmute LED

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
	Ayman Bagabas <ayman.bagabas@gmail.com>,
	ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
	Kailang Yang <kailang@realtek.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] ALSA: hda: add support for Huawei WMI micmute LED
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 14:18:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181122131802.GB13339@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHp75VddanEB-7qQutSWkbSZW4srRzGXkigCMxEP7zJ=KC6iKw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu 2018-11-22 13:36:43, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 2:19 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 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 "something
> > > > > special". That means ugly code (quoted above) and lack of flexibility.
> > > > >
> > > > > For example, if my notebook lacks HDD LED, I can use scrollock LED for
> > > > > that instead. Or, in reverse way, maybe "mic mute" LED is not useful
> > > > > 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 other
> > > > 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 side
> > > > (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?
> 
> Is this settled? I'm encouraged to promote this series to our for-next branch.

I'd prefer this to be normal LED and "mic muted" to become normal
trigger.

									Pavel
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