Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 1/4] HID: hid-appletb-bl: add driver for the backlight of Apple Touch Bars

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 5 Feb 2025, Aditya Garg wrote:

> > Sorry for being dense, but does that mean that it's either 
> > hid-appletb-bl or hid-apple, but never both to make a good user 
> > experience on those devices?
> > 
> > If so, can you please point out what exactly is the reason?
> > 
> > Either those have different VID/PID combination, and then it can be easily
> > made conditional both in code and in runtime.
> > Are we talking about conflicting VID/PID combinations, some of them
> > needing current hid-apple, and some of them needing (in a mutually
> > exclusive way) hid-appletb-bl?
> > 
> 
> Just to clarify a bit more,
> 
> The touchbar backlight device is 05ac:8102, in all the models with magic 
> backlight, that is, with as well as without touchbar. The MacBook Air 
> 2020 is the only model with this device but not having a touchbar.
> 
> This device is responsible for both the touchbar brightness and the 
> keyboard backlight, the 0th interface being responsible for keyboard 
> backlight on Air and 1st on others.

Ah, wow, ok, then it's indeed really messy. Thanks for the explanation.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs