Re: [PATCH] HID: apple: Add support for magic keyboard backlight on T2 Macs

[Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com>]

Hi Orlando

I resubmitted the patch which included only the backlight driver had no replies. Let's see if jiri is fine with the separate driver or not.

> On 2 Jul 2024, at 4:27 AM, Orlando Chamberlain <orlandoch.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>> On 2 Jul 2024, at 8:48 AM, Orlando Chamberlain <orlandoch.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 2 Jul 2024, at 4:19 AM, Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@live.com> wrote:
>>> Apparently this patch is breaking touchbar functionality is some cases.
>> 
>> I think this is because apple_magic_backlight_init will return an error when it finds the touchbar interface, but this return value is not checked, so hid-apple still binds to the touchbar backlight.
> 
> We may also need to make sure hid_hw_stop is called in this case. Perhaps we can move this logic from apple_magic_backlight_init to apple_probe?
> 
>> 
>> This should be fixable so I don't think we need to still have the separate driver.
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> static int apple_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
>>>>     const struct hid_device_id *id)
>>>> {
>>>> @@ -860,6 +940,9 @@ static int apple_probe(struct hid_device *hdev,
>>>> if (quirks & APPLE_BACKLIGHT_CTL)
>>>>     apple_backlight_init(hdev);
>>>> 
>>>> +    if (quirks & APPLE_MAGIC_BACKLIGHT)
>>>> +        apple_magic_backlight_init(hdev);
>> 
>> return value isn't checked here ^, we return 0 unconditionally below.
>> 
>>>> +
>>>> return 0;
>>>> }