Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: allow to use all hotkeys

[Kenneth Chan]

It took quite a while to do a full compile, just to be safe.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2022 at 19:07, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Looking at this has also brought up an unrelated backlight question:
>
> Kenneth, since you have acpi-video reporting keypresses you will
> likely also have an acpi_video (or perhaps a native intel) backlight
> under /sys/class/backlight and I noticed that panasonic-laptop
> uncondirionally registers its backlight so you may very well end
> up with 2 backlight controls under /sys/class/backlight, which
> we generally try to avoid (so that userspace does not have to
> guess which one to use).
>
> Can you do:
> ls /sys/class/backlight

root@jaguar:~# ls -l /sys/class/backlight/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 19 17:26 acpi_video0 ->
../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/backlight/acpi_video0/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 19 17:26 intel_backlight ->
../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-LVDS-1/intel_backlight/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 19 18:48 panasonic ->
../../devices/virtual/backlight/panasonic/

>
> and let me know the output?
>
> Also if there are 2 backlights there then please do:
> cat /sys/class/backlight/<name>/max_brightness
> to find out the range (0-value)

root@jaguar:~# cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness
20
root@jaguar:~# cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness
6375000
root@jaguar:~# cat /sys/class/backlight/panasonic/max_brightness
21

>
> and then try if they both work by doing:
>
> echo $number > /sys/class/backlight/<name>/brightness
>
> with different $number values in the range and see
> if this actually changes the brightness.

/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness: works
/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness: works
/sys/class/backlight/panasonic/brightness: does not work

The mute, volume up/down keys are still duplicated by atkbd after
applying 0005-platform-x86-panasonic-laptop-filter-out-duplicate-v.patch.

--
Kenneth