Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: wilco_ec: Fix keyboard backlight probing

[Daniel Campello]

Hi Enric,

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:38:58AM +0100, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Many thanks for sending the patch upstream.
>
> On 7/1/20 19:24, Daniel Campello wrote:
> > The EC on the Wilco platform responds with 0xFF to commands related to
> > the keyboard backlight on the absence of a keyboard backlight module.
> > This change allows the EC driver to continue loading even if the
> > backlight module is not present.
> >
>
> Could you explain a bit more which is the problem you're trying to solve? I am
> not sure I understand it, isn't the kbbl_exist call for that purpose? (in
> absence of the keyboard backligh module just don't init the device?)

kbbl_exists is intended to return a bool based on response.status !=
0xFF. Without this patch kbbl_exists will fail and return an -EIO
error on any value of response.status

>
> Thanks,
>  Enric
>