This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
platform/x86: acer-wmi: add automatic keyboard background light toggle key as KEY_LIGHTS_TOGGLE
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
platform-x86-acer-wmi-add-automatic-keyboard-backgro.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4a38bd98aaae41acddb82e51e2ddf5eee6d2f52a
Author: Timo Witte <timo.witte@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 4 02:14:23 2020 +0200
platform/x86: acer-wmi: add automatic keyboard background light toggle key as KEY_LIGHTS_TOGGLE
[ Upstream commit 9e7a005ad56aa7d6ea5830c5ffcc60bf35de380b ]
Got a dmesg message on my AMD Renoir based Acer laptop:
"acer_wmi: Unknown key number - 0x84" when toggling keyboard
background light
Signed-off-by: Timo Witte <timo.witte@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200804001423.36778-1-timo.witte@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
index 5c169a837ebdf..b336f2620f9dc 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static const struct key_entry acer_wmi_keymap[] __initconst = {
{KE_KEY, 0x64, {KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE} }, /* Display Switch */
{KE_IGNORE, 0x81, {KEY_SLEEP} },
{KE_KEY, 0x82, {KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE} }, /* Touch Pad Toggle */
+ {KE_IGNORE, 0x84, {KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE} }, /* Automatic Keyboard background light toggle */
{KE_KEY, KEY_TOUCHPAD_ON, {KEY_TOUCHPAD_ON} },
{KE_KEY, KEY_TOUCHPAD_OFF, {KEY_TOUCHPAD_OFF} },
{KE_IGNORE, 0x83, {KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE} },
