2 recent commits:
cfae58ed681c ("platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Only blacklist SW_TABLET_MODE
on the 9 / "Laptop" chasis-type")
1fac39fd0316 ("platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Also handle tablet-mode switch on
"Detachable" and "Portable" chassis-types")
Enabled reporting of SW_TABLET_MODE on more devices since the vbtn ACPI
interface is used by the firmware on some of those devices to report this.
Testing has shown that unconditionally enabling SW_TABLET_MODE reporting
on all devices with a chassis type of 8 ("Portable") or 10 ("Notebook")
which support the VGBS method is a very bad idea.
Many of these devices are normal laptops (non 2-in-1) models with a VGBS
which always returns 0, which we translate to SW_TABLET_MODE=1. This in
turn causes userspace (libinput) to suppress events from the builtin
keyboard and touchpad, making the laptop essentially unusable.
Since the problem of wrongly reporting SW_TABLET_MODE=1 in combination
with libinput, leads to a non-usable system. Where as OTOH many people will
not even notice when SW_TABLET_MODE is not being reported, this commit
changes intel_vbtn_has_switches() to use a DMI based allow-list.
The new DMI based allow-list matches on the 31 ("Convertible") and
32 ("Detachable") chassis-types, as these clearly are 2-in-1s and
so far if they support the intel-vbtn ACPI interface they all have
properly working SW_TABLET_MODE reporting.
Besides these 2 generic matches, it also contains model specific matches
for 2-in-1 models which use a different chassis-type and which are known
to have properly working SW_TABLET_MODE reporting.
This has been tested on the following 2-in-1 devices:
Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130 vPro
HP Pavilion X2 10-p002nd
HP Stream x360 Convertible PC 11
Medion E1239T
Fixes: cfae58ed681c ("platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Only blacklist SW_TABLET_MODE on the 9 / "Laptop" chasis-type")
BugLink: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/keyboard-and-touchpad-only-work-on-kernel-5-6/22668
BugLink: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1175599
Cc: Barnabás Pőcze <pobrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
-Fix Barnabás' name in the Cc: line of the commit msg
---
drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c b/drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c
index e85d8e58320c..f5901b0b07cd 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c
@@ -167,20 +167,54 @@ static bool intel_vbtn_has_buttons(acpi_handle handle)
return ACPI_SUCCESS(status);
}
+/*
+ * There are several laptops (non 2-in-1) models out there which support VGBS,
+ * but simply always return 0, which we translate to SW_TABLET_MODE=1. This in
+ * turn causes userspace (libinput) to suppress events from the builtin
+ * keyboard and touchpad, making the laptop essentially unusable.
+ *
+ * Since the problem of wrongly reporting SW_TABLET_MODE=1 in combination
+ * with libinput, leads to a non-usable system. Where as OTOH many people will
+ * not even notice when SW_TABLET_MODE is not being reported, a DMI based allow
+ * list is used here. This list mainly matches on the chassis-type of 2-in-1s.
+ *
+ * There are also some 2-in-1s which use the intel-vbtn ACPI interface to report
+ * SW_TABLET_MODE with a chassis-type of 8 ("Portable") or 10 ("Notebook"),
+ * these are matched on a per model basis, since many normal laptops with a
+ * possible broken VGBS ACPI-method also use these chassis-types.
+ */
+static const struct dmi_system_id dmi_switches_allow_list[] = {
+ {
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE, "31" /* Convertible */),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE, "32" /* Detachable */),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Venue 11 Pro 7130"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP Stream x360 Convertible PC 11"),
+ },
+ },
+ {} /* Array terminator */
+};
+
static bool intel_vbtn_has_switches(acpi_handle handle)
{
- const char *chassis_type = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE);
unsigned long long vgbs;
acpi_status status;
- /*
- * Some normal laptops have a VGBS method despite being non-convertible
- * and their VGBS method always returns 0, causing detect_tablet_mode()
- * to report SW_TABLET_MODE=1 to userspace, which causes issues.
- * These laptops have a DMI chassis_type of 9 ("Laptop"), do not report
- * switches on any devices with a DMI chassis_type of 9.
- */
- if (chassis_type && strcmp(chassis_type, "9") == 0)
+ if (!dmi_check_system(dmi_switches_allow_list))
return false;
status = acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "VGBS", NULL, &vgbs);
--
2.28.0
