On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 09:09:36PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Given that the use of mute LEDs itself is actually rare and especially the use of mute LEDs in combination with ASoC coming up with some generic configuration mechanism to allow userspace to tie the
This seems like an optimistic set of assumptions - it may reflect current laptops but it sounds like the sort of thing people might deploy on future devices, never mind all the non-laptops that could end up wanting to use this mechanism.
Not to mention that this would just be punting the actual problem of figuring out which control to use to userspace, while the kernel is actually in a better place to make this decision since the kernel already uses DMI based quirks to deal with model specific configuration.
Again, this only works in cases where there's only one option for the control that could be used.