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Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight sysfs interface

From Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight sysfs interface
Date 2017-06-18 14:50 +0200
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On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Kai-Heng Feng
<kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> wrote:
> Dell Latitude 3160 does not have keyboard backlight, but there is a
> sysfs interface for it, which does nothing at all.
>
> KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN is the only token can be found. Since it doesn't have
> KBD_LED_ON_TOKEN or KBD_LED_AUTO_*_TOKEN, it should be safe to assume it
> does not support keyboard backlight.
>
> Reports keyboard backlight is supported only when tokens other than
> KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN can be found.

Okay, I'm waiting for v2 with Pali's or mine suggestion applied.

>
> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index ec202094bd50..743d7ce8c0c8 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -1510,7 +1510,11 @@ static void kbd_init(void)
>         ret = kbd_init_info();
>         kbd_init_tokens();
>
> -       if (kbd_token_bits != 0 || ret == 0)
> +       /*
> +        * If KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN is the only token,
> +        * consider there is no keyboard backlight.
> +        */
> +       if ((kbd_token_bits & ~BIT(5)) != 0 || ret == 0)
>                 kbd_led_present = true;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.13.1
>



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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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[PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight sysfs interface Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> - 2017-06-16 09:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight  sysfs interface Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 10:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight  sysfs interface Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> - 2017-06-16 11:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight  sysfs interface Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 12:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight  sysfs interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-06-16 12:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight  sysfs interface Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 14:50 +0200

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