linux-kernel - Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard backlight

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:20:15 -0200
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Kevin Locke <kevin@...inlocke.name>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Fabio D'Urso" <fabiodurso@...mail.it>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard
 backlight

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016, at 16:11, Kevin Locke wrote:
> I looked through the DSDT and SSDT AML on the T430 (which also has both 
> a keyboard backlight and ThinkLight) and couldn't deduce which method 
> was being invoked for Fn+Space or an analog to MLCG/MLCS for the 
> ThinkLight.  However, that may be due to my inexperience interpreting 
> AML.  I'll keep looking/learning.

It calls directly into the SMBIOS :-(

-- 
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  Henrique Holschuh