Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH v4 2/4] platform: x86: thinkpad: Call led_notify_brightness_change on kbd brightness change

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On Fri, 2016-11-11 at 15:33 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> On 11-11-16 15:12, Pali Rohár wrote:
>> My question remains. Is this for Thinklight or keyboard backlight?
>> Because Thinklinght has led device "tpacpi_led_thinklight" and keyboard
>> backlight has led device "tpacpi_led_kbdlight".
> 
> I would say both, this matches with the pre-existing
> TP_ACPI_HKEY_THNKLGHT_MASK (they have a 1:1 mapping),
> keep in mind that there are no thinkpads with both
> a thinklight and a backlit keyboard, as those both
> serve the same purpose so it looks like the re-used
> the scancode.

That's not entirely correct.  The ThinkPad T430 has both a ThinkLight
and a keyboard backlight.  Pressing Fn-Space toggles between 4 states:

Both Off -> Backlight Low -> Backlight High -> ThinkLight On (BL Off)

I tested out your patch and observed the following behavior (printing
brightness initially and on POLLPRI):

# Initial state with both lights off.
tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness: 0
tpacpi::thinklight/brightness: 0
# Press Fn-Space.  KBD Backlight comes on low.
tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness: 1
# Press Fn-Space.  KBD Backlight brightens to high.
tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness: 2
# Press Fn-Space.  KBD Backlight turns off.  ThinkLight turns on.
tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness: 0
# Press Fn-Space.  ThinkLight turns off.
tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness: 0

It works, but the behavior is not quite what I would hope for.  There
are no poll events for tpacpi::thinklight/brightness and when the
ThinkLight turns off it triggers an unnecessary
tpacpi::kbd_backlight/brightness poll event.

If there is anything else I can do to assist, let me know.

Thanks for working on this,
Kevin
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