On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 04:02:12PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

Thinkpads with a micmute LED do not have a capslock LED. The micmute LED
is currently not used by any piece of Linux kernel land or user land. It
seems reasonable to hook it up to caps lock, at least by default, so
users can have some degree of functionality.

I think there's a risk of user confusion here, in that it's now possible 
for the mic mute light to be lit despite the internal microphone still 
being active. That seems like surprising behaviour.

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