linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight sysfs interface

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Date:   Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:36:29 +0800
From:   Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
To:     pali.rohar@...il.com
Cc:     andy@...radead.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, dvhart@...radead.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight sysfs interface

Dell Latitude 3160 does not have keyboard backlight, but there is a
sysfs interface for it, which does nothing at all.

KBD_LED_ON_TOKEN is the only token can be found. Since it doesn't have
KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN or KBD_LED_AUTO_*_TOKEN, it should be safe to assume it
does not support keyboard backlight.

Models which do not use SMBIOS to control keyboard backlight, also have
this issue. Brightness level is 0 on these models. Verified on Dell
Inspiron 3565.

Reports keyboard backlight is supported only when tokens other than
KBD_LED_ON_TOKEN can be found, or brightness level is not 0.

Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
---

v2:
The only token can be found is actually KBD_LED_ON_TOKEN, which is BIT(5),
instead of KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN. Change commit log accordingly.

Use token bit to make the intention more clear.
Also consider kbd_mode_levels_count and kbd_info.levels, suggested by
Pali Rohár.

Use XOR to simplify the bitmask comparison, suggested by
Andy Shevchenko.

 drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
index ec202094bd50..4b21fc982cb0 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
@@ -1148,6 +1148,15 @@ static const int kbd_tokens[] = {
 	KBD_LED_ON_TOKEN,
 };

+enum kbd_led_token_bit {
+	KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_OFF = 0,
+	KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_AUTO_25,
+	KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_AUTO_50,
+	KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_AUTO_75,
+	KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_AUTO_100,
+	KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_ON,
+};
+
 static u16 kbd_token_bits;

 static struct kbd_info kbd_info;
@@ -1510,7 +1519,12 @@ static void kbd_init(void)
 	ret = kbd_init_info();
 	kbd_init_tokens();

-	if (kbd_token_bits != 0 || ret == 0)
+	/*
+	 * If brightness level is 0, or KBD_LED_ON_TOKEN is the only token,
+	 * consider there is no keyboard backlight.
+	 */
+	if ((ret == 0 && (kbd_info.levels || kbd_mode_levels_count)) ||
+	    kbd_token_bits ^ BIT(KBD_LED_TOKEN_BIT_ON))
 		kbd_led_present = true;
 }

-- 
2.13.1