Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix keyboard brightness cannot be set to 0

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jan 13 2020 - 04:47:24 EST


On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:47 AM Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 2:53 PM Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Here, writing 0x80 to turn off the keyboard LED will result in an
> > additional WRAM(0x9f0, 0) call that was not there before. I think we
> > should double check this detail.
> >
> > Let's see if we can borrow one of the affected models and double check
> > this patch there before proceeding. I'll follow up internally.
>
> Asus were unable to find a product sample with the affected behaviour.
> They did provide us with one from the list I had made, but with a
> newer BIOS version where that behaviour has been eliminated. They also
> advised that always setting bit 7 is the way they do it on Windows. So
> I don't think we have the opportunity for extra verification, but it
> should be safe.
>

> Reviewed-by: Daniel Drake <drake@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you, Daniel! I'll queue it soon to my tree.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko