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SubjectRe: 2.6.25 intended change: smc:kbd_backlight vs. smc::kbd_backlight ?
Hello; I noticed this as well, you loose the greatest feature; the
cool leds lights on the keyboard with the macbook pro,
A solution that worked for me was to compile pommed from the source
and edit kbd_backlight.h
regards;
Justin P. Mattock

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 20:58 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am wondering whether the change from
> >
> > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc:kbd_backlight (2.6.24)
> > /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight (2.6.25)
> >
> > is intentional?
> >
> > I recognized that it breaks current userspace applications changing the
> > keyboard background leds like pommed...
>
> OK it looks like commit 6c152beefbf90579d21afc4f7e075b1f801f9a75 from
> Richard Purdie, 'leds: Standardise LED naming scheme' introduced this
> change.
>
> Why do we need '::' instead of a single ':' (that would not have broken
> things)?
>
> Also sometimes only a single ':' seperator is used like in
> corgi:green:mail but e.g. not in clevo::mail ?!
>
> Soeren
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