From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753126AbdKISU5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 13:20:57 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:44408 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751065AbdKISUz (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Nov 2017 13:20:55 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 10:20:54 -0800 From: Darren Hart To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: kedar kedar , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Platform Driver Subject: Re: Feature request - support kbd_backlight on Hewlett-Packard Message-ID: <20171109182054.GE21449@fury> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 02:24:44PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > +Cc: correct subsystem > > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:04 AM, kedar kedar wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can anyone please try add support for controlling keyboard backlight > > via sysfs on Hewlett-Packard notebooks? > > Maybe in a similar way as this last year patch for Thinkpad? > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/24/295 > > BTW: This functionality is already supported (minimaly) on Apple, > > ASUS, Dell, Samsung, Sony, Thinkpad, Toshiba :-) > > I dunno if my corporate windows laptop has this feature, though I > can't do anything in near future regarding to this, no time. > > In any case it looks like HP stuff is kinda orphaned in PDx86 > subsystem (just occasional fixes happen). Hi Kedar, is there a bugzilla entry open for this? If not, this is a good way to capture the problem and share details on the system with people that may be able to help but do not have the hardware platform itself. https://bugzilla.kernel.org -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center