On Saturday 19 November 2016 16:44:09 Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi, > > On 11/18/2016 07:47 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: > > HI, > > > > On 18-11-16 17:03, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On 11/18/2016 10:07 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> On 18-11-16 09:55, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > >>>> Hi Hans, > >>>> > >>>> Thanks for the patch. > >>>> > >>>> I think we need less generic trigger name. > >>>> With present name we pretend that all kbd-backlight controllers > >>>> can change LED brightness autonomously. > >>>> > >>>> How about kbd-backlight-pollable ? > >>> > >>> This is a trigger to control kbd-backlights, in the > >>> current use-case the brightness change is already done > >>> by the firmware, hence the set_brightness argument to > >>> ledtrig_kbd_backlight(), so that we can avoid setting > >>> it again. > >>> > >>> But I can see future cases where we do want to have some > >>> event (e.g. a wmi hotkey event on a laptop where the firmware > >>> does not do the adjustment automatically) which does > >>> lead to actually updating the brightness. > >>> > >>> So I decided to go with a generic kbd-backlight trigger, > >>> which in the future can also be used to directly control > >>> kbd-backlight brightness; and not just to make ot > >>> poll-able. > >> > >> I thought that kbd-backlight stands for "keyboard backlight", > > > > It does. > > > >> that's why I assessed it is too generic. > > > > The whole purpose of the trigger as implemented is to be > > generic, as it seems senseless to implement a one off > > trigger for just the dell / thinkpad case. > > > >> It seems however to be > >> the other way round - if kbd-backlight means that this is > >> a trigger only for use with dell-laptop keyboard driver > >> (I see kbd namespacing prefix in the driver functions) than it is > >> not generic at all. > > > > The trigger as implemented is generic, if you think > > otherwise, please let me know which part is not generic > > according to you. > > I think I was too meticulous here. In the end of the previous > message I mentioned that we cannot guarantee that all keyboard > backlight controllers can adjust brightness autonomously. > Nonetheless, for the ones that cannot do that it would make no sense > to have a trigger. In view of that this trigger is generic enough. > > I'll wait for Pavel's opinion before merging the patch set > as he was also involved in this whole thread. Do you mean me? Or Pavel Machek (CCed) who was involved in LEDs for input devices? As pointed in other email, we do not know if HW really controls keyboard backlight, so adding "fake" trigger on machines without HW control is not a good idea. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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