[PATCH v5 1/2] Documentation: leds: standardise keyboard backlight led names
From: Orlando Chamberlain <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-20 11:52:39
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Advice use of either "input*:*:kbd_backlight" or ":*:kbd_backlight". We don't want people using vendor or product name (e.g. "smc", "apple", "asus") as this information is available from sysfs anyway, and it made the folder names inconsistent. Signed-off-by: Orlando Chamberlain <redacted> --- Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt b/Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt
index 2160382c86be..4e5429fce4d8 100644
--- a/Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt
+++ b/Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@ Legacy: "lp5523:kb{1,2,3,4,5,6}" (Nokia N900) Frontlight/backlight of main keyboard. +Good: ":*:kbd_backlight" +Good: "input*:*:kbd_backlight" +Legacy: "*:*:kbd_backlight" + +Many drivers have the vendor or product name as the first field of the led name, +this makes names inconsistent and is redundant as that information is already in +sysfs. + Legacy: "button-backlight" (Motorola Droid 4) Some phones have touch buttons below screen; it is different from main
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