On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 07:09:51PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Add a module option to disable the reporting of keypresses, in some buggy
> firmware implementatinon, the reported events are wrong. E.g. they lag
> reality by one event in the case triggering the writing of this patch.
>
> In this case it is better to not forward these wrong events to userspace
> (esp.) when there is another source of the same events which is not buggy.
>
> Note this is only intended to work around implementations which send
> events which are plain wrong. In some cases we get double events, e.g.
> from both acpi-video and the atkbd driver, in this case acpi-video is
> considered the canonical source, and the events from the other source
> should be filtered (using e.g. /lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb).
>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 14 +++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
> index 2a649f3e..2971154 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c
> @@ -77,6 +77,13 @@ module_param(allow_duplicates, bool, 0644);
> static int disable_backlight_sysfs_if = -1;
> module_param(disable_backlight_sysfs_if, int, 0444);
>
> +#define REPORT_OUTPUT_KEY_EVENTS 0x01
> +#define REPORT_BRIGHTNESS_KEY_EVENTS 0x02
Since report_key_events is used as a bitmask, it might be preferable to use
bitops.
> +static int report_key_events = -1;
> +module_param(report_key_events, int, 0644);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(report_key_events,
> + "0: none, 1: output changes, 2: brightness changes, 3: all");
> +
> static bool device_id_scheme = false;
> module_param(device_id_scheme, bool, 0444);
>
> @@ -1480,7 +1487,7 @@ static void acpi_video_bus_notify(struct acpi_device *device, u32 event)
> /* Something vetoed the keypress. */
> keycode = 0;
>
> - if (keycode) {
> + if (keycode && (report_key_events & REPORT_OUTPUT_KEY_EVENTS)) {
> input_report_key(input, keycode, 1);
> input_sync(input);
> input_report_key(input, keycode, 0);
> @@ -1544,7 +1551,7 @@ static void acpi_video_device_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data)
>
> acpi_notifier_call_chain(device, event, 0);
>
> - if (keycode) {
> + if (keycode && (report_key_events & REPORT_BRIGHTNESS_KEY_EVENTS)) {
This and the above test would be more explicit if written as:
if (keycode && (report_key_events & BIT(REPORT_BRIGHTNESS_KEY_EVENTS))
Do you have a preference Rafael?
> input_report_key(input, keycode, 1);
> input_sync(input);
> input_report_key(input, keycode, 0);
> @@ -2080,7 +2087,8 @@ bool acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses(void)
> have_video_busses = !list_empty(&video_bus_head);
> mutex_unlock(&video_list_lock);
>
> - return have_video_busses;
> + return have_video_busses &&
> + (report_key_events & REPORT_BRIGHTNESS_KEY_EVENTS);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses);
>
> --
> 2.5.0
>
>
--
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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