[alsa-devel] [V2 PATCH] ALSA: hda - Enable mute/mic-mute LEDs for more Thinkpads with Conexant codec

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > Please explain _in detail_ what you mean with "changing a power button to a
> > reset button by acessing the SSMS ACPI method in a X121e".
> > 
> > Are we trigering a bug somewhere that crashes the x121e and causes it to
> > reboot?
> 
> Well, there aren't much details to describe in this case: When this
> patch is applied and I press the power button, the device performs a
> hard reset. It doesn't reveal if the kernel crashes catastrophically,
> causing a triple fault or so, or if the firmware decides to reset the
> platform. Reverting the patch or preventing its effect via a quirk
> filter like I posted [1] makes the issue go away.

Ok, so we crashing the firmware, and on a box that is not likely to get
further updates.  Well, this is a pretty clear case: blacklist.

Since calling SSMS in the X121e is unsafe, it needs to be blacklisted in
thinkpad-acpi.  I will need dmidecode output for that (please XXX-out UUIDs
and serial numbers in the dmidecode output before you send it to me, but do
keep model numbers intact).

We can also have a blacklist in ALSA to avoid the whole symbol_request() for
something that will have to fail, of course.  I leave that for the ALSA
maintainers to decide.

That said, you blacklisted in ALSA by full codec->subsystem_id.  Which
thinkpads have the 0x17aa21ec subsystem ID on the codec?  Just the x121e?

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  Henrique Holschuh