linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Fix keyboard led max_brightness property for Dell Latitude E6410

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Message-ID: <20171018180259.xy7ms2mo5fsees6y@pali>
Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:02:59 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:     Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        "Gabriel M. Elder" <gabriel@...gnowsys.com>,
        Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>,
        Mario.Limonciello@...l.com, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-laptop: Fix keyboard led max_brightness property
 for Dell Latitude E6410

On Monday 16 October 2017 14:48:37 Darren Hart wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 06:03:14PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > This machine reports number of keyboard backlight led levels, instead of
> > value of the last led level index. Therefore max_brightness properly needs
> > to be subtracted by 1 to match led max_brightness API.
> 
> Which field is behaving differently?
> 
> If I'm understanding this correctly:
> 
> Since the max level is something we test for once at runtime, it seems
> to me a cleaner fix would be to check for this quirk in kbd_get_info()
> and set kbd_info.levels accordingly. The rest of the driver logic would
> then remain unchanged.

Great, this is a good idea. I would send a new patch in a few minutes.

> The idea being to translate what the platform firmware reports into what
> the driver already understands, instead of giving the levels fields of
> the structure multiple meanings.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com