From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gabriele Mazzotta Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Add entry for dell-laptop sysfs interface Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 18:41:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1417628493-29323-1-git-send-email-gabriele.mzt@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: dvhart@infradead.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, libsmbios-devel@lists.us.dell.com, Srinivas_G_Gowda@dell.com, Michael_E_Brown@dell.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, Gabriele Mazzotta List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Add the documentation for the new sysfs interface of dell-laptop that allows to configure the keyboard illumination on Dell systems. Signed-off-by: Gabriele Mazzotta Signed-off-by: Pali Roh=C3=A1r --- .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dell-laptop | 60 ++++++++++++++= ++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dell-lapto= p diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dell-laptop b/Doc= umentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dell-laptop new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7969443 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-dell-laptop @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +What: /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/als_setting +Date: December 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.19 +Contact: Gabriele Mazzotta , + Pali Roh=C3=A1r +Description: + This file allows to control the automatic keyboard + illumination mode on some systems that have an ambient + light sensor. Write 1 to this file to enable the auto + mode, 0 to disable it. + +What: /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/start_triggers +Date: December 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.19 +Contact: Gabriele Mazzotta , + Pali Roh=C3=A1r +Description: + This file allows to control the input triggers that + turn on the keyboard backlight illumination that is + disabled because of inactivity. + Read the file to see the triggers available. The ones + enabled are preceded by '+', those disabled by '-'. + + To enable a trigger, write its name preceded by '+' to + this file. To disable a trigger, write its name preceded + by '-' instead. + + For example, to enable the keyboard as trigger run: + echo +keyboard > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/start_trigg= ers + To disable it: + echo -keyboard > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/start_trigg= ers + + Note that not all the available triggers can be configured. + +What: /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/stop_timeout +Date: December 2014 +KernelVersion: 3.19 +Contact: Gabriele Mazzotta , + Pali Roh=C3=A1r +Description: + This file allows to specify the interval after which the + keyboard illumination is disabled because of inactivity. + The timeouts are expressed in seconds, minutes, hours and + days, for which the symbols are 's', 'm', 'h' and 'd' + respectively. + + To configure the timeout, write to this file a value along + with any the above units. If no unit is specified, the value + is assumed to be expressed in seconds. + + For example, to set the timeout to 10 minutes run: + echo 10m > /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/stop_timeout + + Note that when this file is read, the returned value might be + expressed in a different unit than the one used when the timeout + was set. + + Also note that only some timeouts are supported and that + some systems might fall back to a specific timeout in case + an invalid timeout is written to this file. --=20 2.1.3