devkit-keyboard-backlight?

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 01:40:48PM +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Or something.
> 
> I have hardware with a keyboard backlight, which is only supported
> through HAL right now (and crummy hacks like pommed).
> 
> Is there anything but Apple laptops supporting this? (And if so, which
> kernel interfaces are being used for those that differ from the applesmc
> ones?)

 FYI, Dell Latitude E6400 has keyboard backlight.
As for itnerfaces, should't it be exposed like any other LED device¹? This
is how overhead LED light on my Thinkpad is controlled. Kernel LED driver 
already supports different brightness levels.

¹ # ls /sys/class/leds 
iwl-phy0::assoc  iwl-phy0::radio  iwl-phy0::RX  iwl-phy0::TX  mmc0::  
tpacpi::power  tpacpi::standby  tpacpi::thinklight  tpacpi::thinkvantage

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