Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:46:47 -0800
From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Fix keyboard backight sysfs entries not
 being updated
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 04:55:06PM -0700, Azael Avalos wrote:
> Hi Darren,
> 
> 2015-11-20 16:39 GMT-07:00 Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>:
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 12:59:31PM -0700, Azael Avalos wrote:
> >> Certain Toshiba models with the second generation keyboard backlight
> >> (type 2) do not generate the keyboard backlight changed event (0x92),
> >> and thus, the sysfs entries are never being updated.
> >>
> >> This patch adds a workquee and a global boolean variable to address
> >> the issue.
> >>
> >> For those models that do generate the event, the sysfs entries are
> >> being updated via the *notify function and the boolean is set to
> >> true to avoid a second call to update the entries.
> >>
> >> For those models that do not generate the event, the workquee is
> >> used to update the sysfs entries and also to emulate the event via
> >> netlink, to make userspace aware of such change.
> >
> > Thanks Azael,
> >
> > Rather than ask you to wait while I research workqueues and their use more, what
> > is it about this task that requires a workqueue? Why can we not call what's in
> > the workqueue below directly from the kbd_backlight_mode_store sysfs write
> > callback?
> 
> I used the workquee to let the sysfs *store function to finish w/o affecting
> the "refresh" of the sysfs entries.
> 
> Previously the sysfs_update_group resided inside the *store function,
> but caused a lock everytime the keyboard mode was changed, and the
> sysfs entries were never updated, this was fixed by moving such function
> to the *notify function, but turns out that some models do not fire such
> event.

OK, got it - thanks. Now:

drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c: In function ‘toshiba_acpi_kbd_bl_work’:
drivers/platform/x86/toshiba_acpi.c:1547:12: error: ‘toshiba_attr_group’
undeclared (first use in this function)
           &toshiba_attr_group))
	               ^
Looks like your static global declaration just comes too late, but... how did
this compile for you?

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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