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

From Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight
Date 2016-01-12 18:00 +0100
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 05:28:00PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
 > 
> > Henrique, so are you taking back your Ack from 10 minutes prior?
> 
> Hmm? No, the ACK stands.
> 
> Pavel was talking about another feature altogether, apparently: older
> thinkpads did not have "keyboard backlight" (as in light from below the
> keys).  They had a "ThinkLight", which is an overhead light that shines
> down on the keyboard.
> 
> The two features are not the same (and are handled differently by the
> firmware, for whatever reason), although they do serve the same purpose.
>  I don't think a thinkpad will ever have both features at the same time,
> so I have no idea why they changed the firmware interface.
> 
> The patch adds support to the "keyboard backlight" feature, which was
> previously NOT supported.
> 
> > I've dropped this patch. Please let me know if I should pick it back up.
> 
> Please pick it back up.
> 

Gah, these two threads landed next to each other in my Inbox and I didn't pick
up the split. Apologies.

This is queued in testing (again).

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center

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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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