[alsa-devel] [PATCH 0/2] add sysfs for acpi interfaces of thinkpad hardware mute

[David Henningsson]

On 08/14/2013 10:38 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-14 at 22:36 +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
> 
>> Imagine you're a non-technical user, who has never heard the words
>> "compromised userspace". You connect your headset where it fits (or
>> cordless), and then select the headset in sound settings (if it didn't
>> get selected for you when you plugged it in). You're on a VOIP call and
>> press the mic mute hotkey. Which mic did you expect to mute? The
>> selected one. On the mic mute hotkey button, there is also a LED. You
>> expect it to lit, because you muted the mic that you currently care
>> about, i e, the selected one.
> 
> The user hit the mute key. Why would they expect *anything* to be
> unmuted?
> 

Why should the userspace application, who just wants to lit a LED, have
to care about a lot of other sound cards and interfaces and mute them,
when the user does not care?

And what about multiseat setups? If a multiseat keyboard has a mic mute
LED, do you think another user's mic mute state should influence the LED
of your keyboard?


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