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

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Date:	Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:36:47 -0800
From:	Kevin Locke <kevin@...inlocke.name>
To:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Fabio D'Urso <fabiodurso@...mail.it>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Add support for keyboard
 backlight

On 01/12/2016 10:20 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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 :-(

Bummer!  Thank you for taking the time to figure that out.

Kevin