Re: [PATCH v2] platform: x86: dell-laptop: Add support for keyboard backlight

[Gabriele Mazzotta]

On Wednesday 03 December 2014 00:43:21 Darren Hart wrote:
> > +     int kbd_timeouts[];
> >
> >  };
> >  
> >  static struct quirk_entry *quirks;
> >
> > @@ -76,6 +89,10 @@ static int __init dmi_matched(const struct
> > dmi_system_id *dmi)>
> >       return 1;
> >  }
> >  
> >
> > +static struct quirk_entry quirk_dell_xps13_9333 = {
> > +     .kbd_timeouts = { 0, 5, 15, 60, 5*60, 15*60, -1 },
> 
> Where did these values come from? Were they documented in the
> libsmbios project? Can you provide a URL to that? These really should
> be described by the firmware, but if they aren't, nothing we can do
> about it.

I took those values from a Windows utility provided by Dell. I tried
to find a reason for that specific list to exist, but I couldn't. The
reason why it's there is that the BIOS of my laptop accepts any timeout,
but it silently sets the timeout to 0 (i.e. illumination never off)
if a value not in that list is given. So, given the wide range of
of possible input values, we added that quirk. This is something my
laptop does, Pali's behaves differently and such a list is not needed.
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