Re: [PATCH v3] HID: apple: Use country code to detect ISO keyboards

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On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 02:03:14PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2017, Alex Henrie wrote:
> > At least on newer laptops, Apple uses the same USB ID for both ISO and
> > ANSI keyboards. However, they have been good about filling in the
> > bCountryCode field in the HID descriptor on all of their keyboards. A
> > value of 13 indicates an ISO layout and other values indicate various
> > country-specific ANSI layouts.
> > 
> > With this patch, users of Apple US keyboards will no longer have to run
> > `echo 0 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/iso_layout` to get a working
> > tilde key.
> > 
> > Please test this patch and send feedback if you have a Macbook or an
> > Apple keyboard.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Applied to for-4.13/apple. Thanks,

Sorry, I'm late to the party, just wanted to report that I've been
carrying this patch on my development branch for a while now and
have not noticed any adverse effects.  This is on a MacBookPro9,1
with a German ISO keyboard (USB_DEVICE_ID_APPLE_WELLSPRING5A_ISO),
HID bCountryCode = 0x0d.

So, FWIW,
Tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Lukas
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