[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <CAHp75Vc4iXX7+VY3dE4ETjLsv=VCFaNwz6nmAUBS_E_dhpK2Aw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 12:18:47 +0300
From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To: Benjamin Berg <bberg@...hat.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>, Chris Chiu <chiu@...lessm.com>,
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Upstreaming Team <linux@...lessm.com>,
Jian-Hong Pan <jian-hong@...lessm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Add keyboard backlight toggle support
On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Benjamin Berg <bberg@...hat.com> wrote:
> I had a quick chat with Bastien about this. The conclusion was that
> reusing the TOGGLE key may be problematic for gnome-settings-daemon.
> And the alternative of a new CYCLE key also has some caveats.
>
> The most straight forward solution is likely to simply handle the
> brightness change in the kernel and not report the key to userspace at
> all. This should work just fine and at least GNOME will show an on
> screen display in response to the brightness change.
>
> Do you think that approach would work well?
Am I right we are waiting for Daniel's answer?
Btw, I mistakenly thought that patch in the queue for-next, while it's
not. So, I'm going to drop it now.
Feel free to re-submit a new (better) version.
--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
Powered by blists - more mailing lists