Re: [gpm] Keyboard Backlight Support

[Alex Murray <murray alex gmail com>]

Hi Richard,

On 30 September 2010 20:16, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> On 30 September 2010 11:32, Alex Murray <murray alex gmail com> wrote:
>> Just wondering if there were any plans to support keyboard backlight
>> control again using g-p-m?
>
> Well, I don't have any hardware with a keyboard backlight, but it
> would be a "nice to have".
Understandably its hard to implement support for something without the
requisite hardware to test against - that's why I'm asking because I
have an instance of such hardware plus am keen to try and hack
together an appropriate solution :)
>
>> I know it used to be supported but was removed (in
>> c8a560caf488129c03a4e437ff7bd54f173c2f55) which I assume was due to
>> HAL being replaced by UPower.
>
> Correct.
>
>> Do we need udev + UPower to come to the party first?
>
> Yes, I think support needs to be added to something, although I'm not
> sure what. UPower is just a power mechanism, so you could argue it
> should go there.
>
>> Basically this is something I'd love to help contribute but I don't
>> really know where to start...
>
> I think sending a note to the devkit-devel mailing list, and asking
> for opinions there would be a good start. Note, we've got most of the
> code in the old hal addons, we just have to decide where it needs to
> live.
No worries will see how I go there.

Thanks for the quick response,
Alex
>
> Richard.
>