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Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: rgb: Implement per-key keyboard backlight for
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Hi,

Am 13.10.23 um 14:19 schrieb Pavel Machek:
> Hi!
>
>> Every multi_zone_* mode could also output a zones_image. That is a greyscale
>> bitmap or even a svg containing the information where each zone is located
>> and which outline it has. For the bitmap the information would be encoded in
>> the grey value, aka 0 = zone 0 etc with 0xff = no zone (i.e. space between
>> the keys). For the svg, the name of the paths would indicate the
>> zone they
> This is not really suitable for kernel.
Yeah thought as much
>
>>> It would go to drivers/auxdisplay, most probably.
>> Looking into it, thanks for the direction. But this would come with the
>> downside that upowers kbd_brightness no longer controls the keyboard.
> Yep. We could add some kind of kludge to fix that.
>
> Perhaps first question is to ask auxdisplay people if treating
> keyboard as a weird display is okay? cc: lkml, leds, drm, input at
> least.

On it

But i don't know how to implement the different hardware effect modes then.

>
> Best regards,
> 								Pavel