On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov <kir...@shutemov.name> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:05:45PM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov >> <kir...@shutemov.name> wrote: >> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:42:11AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Darren Hart <dvh...@infradead.org> >> >> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:58:02AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 09:51:27AM -0800, Darren Hart wrote: >> >> >> > thinkpad-acpi using software mute simplifies the driver and the user >> >> >> > experience >> >> >> > significantly. >> >> >> >> >> >> Except when it doesn't. >> >> >> >> >> >> I'm probably in minority, but I don't use fancy userspace to mess with >> >> >> my >> >> >> mixer and the mute button worked just fine for me before the change. >> >> >> Wasted half an hour to find out what happened is not a pure win from >> >> >> user >> >> >> experience point of view. >> >> >> >> >> >> Is it really necessary to have software_mute_requested == true by >> >> >> default? >> >> >> Can fancy userspace ask for desired behaviour instead and change >> >> >> kernel to >> >> >> not send hotkeys change notification until software_mute is enabled? >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Kirill A. Shutemov >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Thanks for the report Kirill, >> >> > >> >> > Andy, we're at RC4, so if we need to fix (or revert) this fix, we only >> >> > have a >> >> > couple weeks to do so. >> >> > >> >> > Kirill, to define the scope of the problem, if you specify >> >> > software_mute_requested as false on the kernel command line, does your >> >> > system >> >> > function as expected? >> >> >> >> If I understood Kirill's email correctly, the only issue is that he >> >> liked the old behavior. Kirill, is that correct? >> > >> > Yes. For now I use thinkpad_acpi.software_mute=0 to get old behaviour. >> > >> >> What aspect of the old behavior is better than the new default behavior? > > It's not necessary better. The new behavior just broke my use-case. > > I don't have anything in my system what would react on KEY_MUTE and I used > the functionality platform provides until it suddenly stopped working. > > I personally can live with new thinkpad_acpi. I'll probably update my > configuration to react on the software button. > > But who else will get frustrated after update to v3.19?
Can you try the equivalent of: bindsym XF86AudioMute exec amixer -q set Master toggle for your desktop environment? Note that this is exactly what you'd do if you were using any laptop that wasn't a thinkpad. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
