Re: [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: uniwill-laptop: Fix brightness notify for 3 level keyboards

From: Werner Sembach

Date: Wed Aug 05 2026 - 17:48:31 EST



Am 25.07.26 um 16:44 schrieb Armin Wolf:
Am 25.07.26 um 01:00 schrieb Werner Sembach:

The devices with 3 brightness level keyboards seem to send
UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL0, UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL2, and
UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL4 and not UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL0,
UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL1, and UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL2 so this patch does
not return the brightness based on one of these events, but the brightness
read from hardware.

Signed-off-by: Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c | 22 +++------------------
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c
index 7a2eeaec4c961..d9a33be4f4a37 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/uniwill/uniwill-acpi.c
@@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ static int uniwill_led_init(struct uniwill_data *data)
                               &init_data);
  }
  -static int uniwill_notify_kbd_led(struct uniwill_data *data, int brightness)
+static int uniwill_notify_kbd_led(struct uniwill_data *data)
  {
      struct led_classdev *led_cdev;
      int ret;
@@ -1643,7 +1643,7 @@ static int uniwill_notify_kbd_led(struct uniwill_data *data, int brightness)
      if (ret < 0)
          return ret;
  -    led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(led_cdev, brightness);
+    led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(led_cdev, led_cdev->brightness);

WMI events are usually delivered with a large latency, a userspace application could
have changed the LED brightness value in the meantime.

Please check the maximum keyboard backlight brightness inside uniwill_notify_kbd_led()
and translate the brightness values instead:

/* Comment here */
switch (data->kbd_led_max_brightness) {
case 4:
    break;
case 2:
    switch (brightness) {
    case 0:
        break;
    case 2:
        brightness = 1;
        break;
    case 4:
        brightness = 2;
        break;
    default:
        return -EINVAL;
    }
    break;
default:
    return -EINVAL;
}

Thanks,
Armin Wolf
ack, but I did it with some ifs to make the footprint smaller

        return 0;
  }
@@ -2215,30 +2215,14 @@ static int uniwill_notifier_call(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action
            return NOTIFY_OK;
      case UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL0:
-        if (!uniwill_device_supports(data, UNIWILL_FEATURE_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT))
-            return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
-        return notifier_from_errno(uniwill_notify_kbd_led(data, 0));
      case UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL1:
-        if (!uniwill_device_supports(data, UNIWILL_FEATURE_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT))
-            return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
-        return notifier_from_errno(uniwill_notify_kbd_led(data, 1));
      case UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL2:
-        if (!uniwill_device_supports(data, UNIWILL_FEATURE_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT))
-            return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
-        return notifier_from_errno(uniwill_notify_kbd_led(data, 2));
      case UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL3:
-        if (!uniwill_device_supports(data, UNIWILL_FEATURE_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT))
-            return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
-        return notifier_from_errno(uniwill_notify_kbd_led(data, 3));
      case UNIWILL_OSD_KB_LED_LEVEL4:
          if (!uniwill_device_supports(data, UNIWILL_FEATURE_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT))
              return NOTIFY_DONE;
  -        return notifier_from_errno(uniwill_notify_kbd_led(data, 4));
+        return notifier_from_errno(uniwill_notify_kbd_led(data));
      default:
          mutex_lock(&data->input_lock);
          sparse_keymap_report_event(data->input_device, action, 1, true);

base-commit: caf8342512c3056005f475d350eeca089c3c6623