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

From: Jiri Kosina

Date: Tue Feb 03 2026 - 14:44:43 EST


On Tue, 3 Feb 2026, 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.
> >
> > So I see (because of the conflicts in linux-next :) ) that this is now
> > sitting in kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git with Ack from
> > Benjamin.
> >
> > Where did this Ack happen? I don't see it neither in my inbox, nor at
> > 20260122075044.5070-1-lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Mmmm. From my part Benjamin's acks came on V10[1]. I think that series
> was for kernel 6.19 originally.
>
> I b4 to develop the next version so they were carried.

Ah, I see, thanks.

I guess we'll live with the conflicts between the trees for now then, and
will make Linus aware of it when sending merge window piles.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs