On Monday 04 January 2016 21:23:52 Pali Rohár wrote:
> Looks like userspace already uses /sys/class/leds/*::kbd_backlight
> for keyboard backlight (light under the keyboard). At least other
> drivers uses this name and my KDE desktop recognized
> "dell::kbd_backlight" (from dell-laptop.ko) and
> "tpacpi::kbd_backlight" too.
> 
> So really for keyboard backlight use *::kbd_backlight it is already
> handled by existing userspace applications.

upower is one of tool used on linux desktops. See this source code:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/tree/src/up-kbd-backlight.c

It has function up_kbd_backlight_find() which do:

        /* find a led device that is a keyboard device */
        while ((filename = g_dir_read_name (dir)) != NULL) {
                if (g_strstr_len (filename, -1, "kbd_backlight") != NULL) {
                        dir_path = g_build_filename ("/sys/class/leds",
                                                    filename, NULL);
                        break;
                }
        }

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.ro...@gmail.com

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