[PATCH v2 0/2] leds: trigger: input-events: Restore previous brightness on input

From: Nikolay Plastinin via B4 Relay

Date: Wed Sep 30 2026 - 02:54:38 EST


The input-events trigger turns LEDs back on with LED_FULL, so a keyboard
backlight with several levels always comes back at maximum after being
idle. This series restores the level the user picked instead.

Patch 1 adds led_trigger_walk_leds() to the LED core, so that a
trigger which needs a different brightness per LED does not have to walk
trig->led_cdevs itself. Patch 2 converts the input-events trigger to a
regular trigger with per-LED state in trigger_data and uses the helper.

This came up while looking at a keyboard backlight idle timeout for ASUS
laptops in asusctl:
https://github.com/OpenGamingCollective/asusctl/issues/98

Tested on an ASUS ROG Flow X13 GV302XV (asus::kbd_backlight, 3 levels)
with the trigger built out of tree against Fedora's 7.2.7 kernel and a
local copy of the helper, since the helper itself lives in the built-in
LED core.

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Changes in v2:
- Keep the saved brightness in a per-LED struct allocated in activate()
and freed in deactivate(), stored in led_cdev->trigger_data, instead of
overloading blink_brightness (Lee Jones).
- Add led_trigger_walk_leds() to led-triggers.c and use it instead of
walking led_cdevs/trig_list from the trigger (Lee Jones).
- Use the Assisted-by tag format from coding-assistants.rst.
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260924-leds-input-events-brightness-v1-1-b0ceff3a2343@xxxxxxxxx

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Nikolay Plastinin (2):
leds: triggers: Add led_trigger_walk_leds()
leds: trigger: input-events: Restore previous brightness on input

drivers/leds/led-triggers.c | 25 ++++++++++
drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-input-events.c | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
include/linux/leds.h | 7 +++
3 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
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base-commit: f475845eaf3d749114a63270bf2efea459e14dd2
change-id: 20260924-leds-input-events-brightness-a76ae9a77b85

Best regards,
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Nikolay Plastinin <plaztininikolai@xxxxxxxxx>