[Bug 214899] ideapad-laptop: platform backlight device not working

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214899

--- Comment #16 from Johannes P (johannes.penssel@xxxxxxxxx) ---
(In reply to Andy Shevchenko from comment #12)
> (In reply to Johannes P from comment #11)
> > Still nothing but grave silence from the brightness keys though.
> 
> Which might be a sign that the key presses are handled by some
> microcontroller (EC?) with a custom firmware and being delivered to the OS
> in different way. It's also possible that the WMI can be used but these
> events have to be enabled somehow (obviously with ACPI methods or so).

This is something that came to my mind as well. The keyboard backlight on this
machine works in a similar way: It seems to be entirely handled by the EC,
because it is in no way exposed to the OS, but can be toggled at any time, even
during boot/shutdown/restart.

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