On Thursday 04 December 2014 00:16:23 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote: > Keyboard illumination level changes are performed by the BIOS, > so no events should be reported on keypress. This is already > done on systems using the legacy keymap, do it also for > systems that don't use it. > > Signed-off-by: Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@xxxxxxxxx> > --- Tested-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tested on Latitude E6440 and now userspace does not receive KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE event, so does not try to change keyboard backlight (which is already done by BIOS when key is pressed). I suggest to backport this patch to stable kernels because this problem is in all kernel versions which have dell-wmi.c driver. -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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