Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ASoC: rt715:add micmute led state control supports

[Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>]

Dne 25. 03. 21 v 9:19 Yuan, Perry napsal(a):
> Hi Jaroslav:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
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>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ASoC: rt715:add micmute led state control
>> supports
>>
>>
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>> Dne 22. 03. 21 v 10:25 Yuan, Perry napsal(a):
>>> Hi Mark:
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>>> To: Yuan, Perry
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>>>> oder_chiou@realtek.com; perex@perex.cz; tiwai@suse.com;
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>>>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ASoC: rt715:add micmute led state control
>>>> supports
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:38:34PM +0800, Perry Yuan wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +	/* Micmute LED state changed by muted/unmute switch */
>>>>> +	if (mc->invert) {
>>>>> +		if (ucontrol->value.integer.value[0] || ucontrol-
>>>>> value.integer.value[1]) {
>>>>> +			micmute_led = LED_OFF;
>>>>> +		} else {
>>>>> +			micmute_led = LED_ON;
>>>>> +		}
>>>>> +		ledtrig_audio_set(LED_AUDIO_MICMUTE, micmute_led);
>>>>> +	}
>>>>
>>>> These conditionals on inversion seem weird and counterintuitive.  If
>>>> we're going with this approach it would probably be clearer to define
>>>> a custom operation for the affected controls that wraps the standard
>>>> one and adds the LED setting rather than keying off invert like this.
>>>
>>> Currently the sof soundwire driver has no generic led control yet.
>>> This patch can handle the led control needs for MIC mute LED, definitely
>> the patch is a short term solution.
>>> There is a feature request discussion when we started to implement this
>> solution.
>>> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/2496#issuecomment-
>> 713892
>>> 620
>>>
>>> The workable way for now is that we put the LED mute control to the
>> codec driver.
>>> When there is new and full sound LED solution implemented, this part
>> will be also optimized.
>>> The Hardware privacy feature needs this patch to handle the Mic mute
>> led state change.
>>> Before that full solution ready in kernel, could we take this as short term
>> solution?
>>
>> Perry, it's about the machine detection. Your code is too much generic even
>> for the top-level LED trigger implementation. We need an extra check, if the
>> proper LED's are really controlled on the specific hardware. Other hardware
>> may use RT715 for a different purpose. Use DMI / ACPI checks to detect this
>> hardware and don't misuse the inversion flag to enable this code.
>>
>> 						Jaroslav
>>
>> --
>> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
>> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.
> 
> In the V2 patch, I have added the machine detection, but some guys thought that I should remove the detection for it is harmless to other system
> So I remove it in the following patches.
> 
> Is it Ok for you if I add below detection of Dell system which enable the privacy feature ?
>  
> Then the mute led control will be called normally and Mic mute will be successfully configured.
> There is no any impaction to other systems.
> 
> 
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DELL_PRIVACY) 
> .....
> +#endif

I think that you misunderstood the request. It's about the runtime detection
not about the compile time detection. An example for DMI check is in
sound/soc/intel/boards/sof_sdw.c / sof_sdw_quirk_table .

					Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc.