wilco_keyboard_leds_init(9)

✨ wilco_keyboard_leds_init ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the wilco_keyboard_leds_init(9) page 💅 this is a kernel API manual situation, section 9, and it's literally all about making your keyboard glow. yes. the backlight. we're doing this. 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

wilco_keyboard_leds_init — it sets up the keyboard backlight LEDs. that's the whole job, and honestly? iconic. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int wilco_keyboard_leds_init (struct wilco_ec_device *ec );

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💜 ARGUMENTS 💜

• ec — the EC device you're querying. like, that's the one you're asking. hand it over. 🫶

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🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

so after you call this, the keyboard backlight gets exposed through an LED device at /sys/class/leds. and now it's a whole sysfs thing. main character energy for real. 🌟

⚠️ heads up bestie: this one may sleep, because it goes through wilco_ec_mailbox. so don't be calling it from somewhere that can't nap, okay? 😴

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⭐ RETURN ⭐

• 0 on success 🎉
• a negative error code on failure 😭

like, no in-between. it worked or it didn't.

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

the whole squad, fr fr — kernel file ./include/linux/platform_data/wilco-ec.h, plus:

• struct wilco_ec_device(9)
• struct wilco_ec_request(9)
• struct wilco_ec_response(9)
• enum wilco_ec_msg_type(9)
• struct wilco_ec_message(9)
• wilco_ec_mailbox(9)
• wilco_ec_get_property(9)
• wilco_ec_set_property(9)
• wilco_ec_get_byte_property(9)
• wilco_ec_add_sysfs(9)

go read them, iykyk 💖

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alright that's the page! it lives in ./include/linux/platform_data, dated October 2026, and it's filed under wilco_keyboard_leds_init(9). slay, go make that keyboard shine ✨🧚‍♀️💅