Re: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 3.19

["Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:42:11AM -0800, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@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.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov