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:
quoted text
> 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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