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

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Date:   Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:03:48 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Cc:     mjg59@...f.ucam.org, dvhart@...radead.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Fix bogus keyboard backlight
 sysfs interface

On Friday 16 June 2017 17:46:58 Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> > Should not this check to be rather:
> >
> > (kbd_token_bits != 0 && (kbd_token_bits & BIT(KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN)) != BIT(KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN))
> >
> > To express that we have at least one token at it is different from
> > KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN token?
> 
> Yes, this expresses the intention more clearly. I'll use it instead.

Err... second part of condition is wrong. It should be:

(kbd_token_bits & ~BIT(KBD_LED_OFF_TOKEN))

(Remove off token bit and check that there is some other bit set too)

> >
> >>               kbd_led_present = true;
> >>  }
> >>
> >
> > And more important, there are three ways how to control keyboard
> > backlight level:
> >
> > 1) Via SMBIOS token
> > 2) Via SMBIOS call 4/11/0x2 (arg2, byte0)
> > 3) Via SMBIOS call 4/11/0x2 (arg3, byte2)
> >
> > You are adding special case when only one SMBIOS toekn OFF is present
> > which belongs to 1).
> >
> > Therefore there should be same check for 2) and 3) that there are more
> > the one option to set...
> 
> I am not familiar with SMBIOS call.
> Can you point out where 2) and 3) functions are?

See function kbd_led_level_set() (which calls kbd_set_level()). Also see
comment above function kbd_get_info().

For 2) there is kbd_mode_levels_count and for 3) there is
kbd_info.levels.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com