Re: [PATCH v12 00/11] HID: asus: Fix ASUS ROG Laptop's Keyboard backlight handling

From: Ilpo Järvinen

Date: Mon Jan 26 2026 - 09:38:18 EST


On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:50:33 +0100, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:

> This is a two part series which does the following:
> - Clean-up init sequence
> - Unify backlight handling to happen under asus-wmi so that all Aura
> devices have synced brightness controls and the backlight button works
> properly when it is on a USB laptop keyboard instead of one w/ WMI.
>
> For more context, see cover letter of V1. Since V5, I removed some patches
> to make this easier to merge.
>
> [...]


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-next branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-next branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[01/11] HID: asus: simplify RGB init sequence
commit: 0cd98ed97f1cab77822f0afea2bd4dabadd12a8b
[02/11] HID: asus: initialize additional endpoints only for certain devices
commit: 3415a1beb3d876769e476cae2085bedb6b94da35
[03/11] HID: asus: use same report_id in response
commit: 629771528f76df2e6d8b1d5b9297a0c95b317676
[04/11] HID: asus: fortify keyboard handshake
commit: a96ec7a12e41a3f37784f3f69396facc659ec2d4
[05/11] HID: asus: move vendor initialization to probe
commit: 8baca948f6aad8866b4722f527d01bb4d4e22b6f
[06/11] HID: asus: early return for ROG devices
commit: ee1de467511811c71075e5750785d3c95cf45c5f
[07/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Add support for multiple kbd led handlers
commit: efdcbec427f15e6514388c27cf5599604c95b788
[08/11] HID: asus: listen to the asus-wmi brightness device instead of creating one
commit: ba374d424cdd3050d2e1864e7b18393cf3a4d06f
[09/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: remove unused keyboard backlight quirk
commit: d384a3994712ddaec10ae37549c6f0b1a10e7b98
[10/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: add keyboard brightness event handler
commit: f9a21738c6993c6720b8b82a7ead644a74497487
[11/11] HID: asus: add support for the asus-wmi brightness handler
commit: 4884d4795a5ce8077bbb5b97e4c2fd51e312087f

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