I forgot it was tested in August, forgot to link the mail.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/4/323
*It was actually this post that got me interested in getting the LED
support finally include.
Thanks,
Jerone
On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 21:57 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Nov 2011, Jerone Young wrote:
> > Back in May Andy Lutomirski submitted a patch to add mic mute button
> > functionality to thinkpad acpi. It appears that the only issue is that
> > it was submitted to the wrong list, and got caught up in kernel.org/Alsa
> > discussion of standardize the naming scheme.
>
> All I ask is that people with access to other thinkpads test that led so
> that we know it is really the mic led on all thinkpads with a mic, and not
> something else in the other Lenovo thinkpads.
>
> That said, the MIC led is NOT a safe LED. You do NOT want for it to be easy
> to lie to you that the MIC is off when it is not off.
>
> As far as I know, unlike the cellphone industry, *we* are not in the
> business of making it trivial to random third-parties to turn the devices we
> write the operating system for into stealth spy drones.
>
> > The disscussion can be found here:
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/1962
>
> I'm not amused. We have LED triggers for a reason, ALSA should provide a
> generic set of useful LED triggers hooked to the standard mixer controls,
> and I'd be happy to hook them to the platform LEDs.
>
> Userspace should not be in the loop for something like this, unless there
> really is no other way.
>
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