Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] platform/x86: asus-wmi: move keyboard control firmware attributes

[Ilpo Järvinen]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2026, Denis Benato wrote:
> On 1/3/26 00:43, Denis Benato wrote:
> >
> > I was recently reading through the asusctl issue tracker and I found
> > out that some users have been having troubles with the keyboard RGB control
> > that was working before since the creation of asus-armoury and subequent
> > deprecation of old sysfs attributes.
> >
> > This patch series aims to re-introduce those attributes in asus-armoury
> > so that userspace tools can still control keyboard RGB lighting
> > without having to rely on deprecated asus-wmi attributes.
> >
> > In addition to that, since disabling OOBE is essential for controlling
> > LEDs on some models and it was incorrectly tied to deprecated attributes,
> > this patch series also fixes sending OOBE at probe time.
> >
> > Link: https://gitlab.com/asus-linux/asusctl/-/issues/619
> Hi Ilpo, please disregard everything in this patch series except the OOBE fix:
> that fix is important and I see it has been picked up.
> 
> It's probably much better not to touch keyboard modes without a rework
> of the associated RGB interface: it doesn't make sense to move only the
> power state and I already saw there have been reported problems
> with TUFs.
> 
> The original problem I was trying to solve is better solved another way
> via userspace saving the last setting with the interface already provided.

Yes, OOBE fix is now in Linus' tree.

The other 2 patches eliminated from the patchwork queue, thanks.

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