Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add driver for keyboard backlight on Magic keyboards found on T2 Macs

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> On 2 Jul 2024, at 12:48 AM, Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> This patchseries adds support for the internal keyboard backlight of
> Macs with Apple's "Magic" keyboard (MacBookPro16,* and MacBookAir9,1),
> and also documents what names should be used for keyboard backlight
> leds in Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt.
> 
> A separate driver for the purpose of backlight has been chosen because:
> 
> 1. On the MacBookAir9,1 there is a USB device dedicated just for keyboard
>  backlight by the name of Touchbar Backlight. Adding its support to any other
>  hid-driver breaks the device.
> 

Thanks to Orlando’s help, I managed to port the backlight code to already existing hid-apple

So, consider https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/16C35623-78AE-44B9-8D54-CA9584AEC49E@xxxxxxxx/T/#u instead of this patch series.

> 2. It’s now possible to use drm on the Touch Bar (similar to what macOS does).
>  So, the Touch Bar drivers intended to be upstreamed before are no longer used.
>  https://lore.kernel.org/all/868AA58D-2399-4E4A-A6C6-73F88DB13992@xxxxxxxx/
>  The driver that supports drm is still out of tree and yet to be submitted.
> 
> Orlando Chamberlain (2):
> Documentation: leds: standardise keyboard backlight led names
> HID: hid-apple-magic-backlight: Add driver for keyboard backlight on
> internal Magic Keyboards
> 
> Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt | 8 ++
> MAINTAINERS | 6 ++
> drivers/hid/Kconfig | 13 +++
> drivers/hid/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/hid/hid-apple-magic-backlight.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 148 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/hid/hid-apple-magic-backlight.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.39.2





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