RE: dell_wmi: Unknown key on Dell Latitude E6410

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Eric,

It's possible there could have been a BIOS bug with the B2 table that has already
been fixed.
Yes please flash to something current and let us know whether this persists.

Thanks,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Light [mailto:eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 12:19 AM
> To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>; pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: dell_wmi: Unknown key on Dell Latitude E6410
> 
> Hi Mario,
> 
> Sorry for the slow reply.
> 
> I've only recently noticed the error messages, but I've never updated the BIOS on
> this laptop, so I assume it's always been happening.
> 
> Just checked, I'm running BIOS revision A01 (on a Latitude E6410).  I might take the
> time to flash to a reasonably recent version  :)
> 
> E
> 
> --------------------------------------------
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> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2018, at 14:06, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Eric,
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2018 6:05 AM
> > > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Eric Light <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: dell_wmi: Unknown key on Dell Latitude E6410
> > >
> > > Hi Mario!
> > >
> > > Eric Light wrote me that on his Dell Latitude E6410 laptop, dell_wmi
> > > prints following messages into dmesg at every boot.
> > >
> > > [   14.254258] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0xffd0
> pressed
> > > [   14.254259] dell_wmi: Unknown WMI event type 0x12
> > > [   14.487922] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0xffd1
> pressed
> > > [   15.014983] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0x01e3
> pressed
> > >
> >
> > It almost sounds to me like B2 table is missing entries.
> >
> > Is this a regression after a BIOS update?  Or it's always been this way?
> >
> > > Seems that in dell_wmi we are completely missing processing of WMI
> > > events which starts with 0x0012 and then there are some unknown codes
> > > 0xffd0 and 0xffd1.
> > >
> > > Do you have access to documentation what are those code at all? And what
> > > is hidden behind WMI events which starts with 0x0012?
> > >
> > > Also Eric wrote me that pressing brightness up or down key generates
> > > following events:
> > >
> > > Brightness Up:
> > >
> > > [ 1103.717988] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0xffae
> pressed
> > > [ 1103.717990] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0xff81
> pressed
> > >
> > > Brightness Down:
> > >
> > > [ 1157.078641] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0xffac
> pressed
> > > [ 1157.078644] dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0011 and code 0xff80
> pressed
> > >
> > > For me it looks suspicious because why pressing one key generates those
> > > two 0x0011 events and why next one is generated after 2-3s...
> > >
> > > I think the best way is to define all those events in dell_wmi to be
> > > ignored (as I have not heard that brightness does not work), but it
> > > would be a good idea to know we are going to ignore.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pali Rohár
> > > pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx




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