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Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight

From Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight
Date 2016-01-09 18:40 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 4, 2016, at 18:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > This patch adds support for controlling keyboard backlight via standard
> > linux led class interface (::kbd_backlight). It uses ACPI HKEY device with
> > MLCG and MLCS methods.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> > Tested-by: Fabio D'Urso <fabiodurso@hotmail.it>
> 
> On my thinkpad, keyboard light is controlled by
> 
> /sys/class/leds/tpacpi\:\:thinklight/brightness
> 
> (that's a bad name).

That's because the driver was not updated to support your laptop, AND I
don't recall if someone mapped the full behavior of the ACPI thinklight
interface in your thinkpad :-(

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-01-04 21:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 21:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 21:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-09 18:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-09 18:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-01-11 20:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-11 20:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 21:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> - 2016-01-11 22:20 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-12 17:10 +0100
                Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for  keyboard backlight Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2016-01-12 17:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> - 2016-01-12 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-12 19:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net> - 2016-01-12 23:10 +0100
                Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard  backlight Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name> - 2016-01-12 19:20 +0100
                Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard  backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-12 19:30 +0100
                Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard  backlight Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name> - 2016-01-12 19:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-12 17:10 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-01-12 23:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-01-13 10:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-01-13 20:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-01-13 20:20 +0100
          Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for  keyboard backlight Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> - 2016-01-11 23:50 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-01-12 18:00 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> - 2016-01-12 19:00 +0100

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