> 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
