Re: Feature request - support kbd_backlight on Hewlett-Packard

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Nov 09 2017 - 07:24:54 EST


+Cc: correct subsystem

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:04 AM, kedar kedar <k3dar7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone please try add support for controlling keyboard backlight
> via sysfs on Hewlett-Packard notebooks?
> Maybe in a similar way as this last year patch for Thinkpad?
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/24/295
> BTW: This functionality is already supported (minimaly) on Apple,
> ASUS, Dell, Samsung, Sony, Thinkpad, Toshiba :-)

I dunno if my corporate windows laptop has this feature, though I
can't do anything in near future regarding to this, no time.

In any case it looks like HP stuff is kinda orphaned in PDx86
subsystem (just occasional fixes happen).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko