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.
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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski
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