This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
platform/x86: asus-wmi: Change ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN code from 0x20 to 0x2e
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
platform-x86-asus-wmi-change-asus_wmi_brn_down-code-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 8e3289bd41eedfb7b80ae9f28309950a21a577a1
Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Oct 17 11:07:23 2023 +0200
platform/x86: asus-wmi: Change ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN code from 0x20 to 0x2e
[ Upstream commit f37cc2fc277b371fc491890afb7d8a26e36bb3a1 ]
Older Asus laptops change the backlight level themselves and then send
WMI events with different codes for different backlight levels.
The asus-wmi.c code maps the entire range of codes reported on
brightness down keypresses to an internal ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN code:
define NOTIFY_BRNUP_MIN 0x11
define NOTIFY_BRNUP_MAX 0x1f
define NOTIFY_BRNDOWN_MIN 0x20
define NOTIFY_BRNDOWN_MAX 0x2e
if (code >= NOTIFY_BRNUP_MIN && code <= NOTIFY_BRNUP_MAX)
code = ASUS_WMI_BRN_UP;
else if (code >= NOTIFY_BRNDOWN_MIN && code <= NOTIFY_BRNDOWN_MAX)
code = ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN;
Before this commit all the NOTIFY_BRNDOWN_MIN - NOTIFY_BRNDOWN_MAX
aka 0x20 - 0x2e events were mapped to 0x20.
This mapping is causing issues on new laptop models which actually
send 0x2b events for printscreen presses and 0x2c events for
capslock presses, which get translated into spurious brightness-down
presses.
The plan is disable the 0x11-0x2e special mapping on laptops
where asus-wmi does not register a backlight-device to avoid
the spurious brightness-down keypresses. New laptops always send
0x2e for brightness-down presses, change the special internal
ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN value from 0x20 to 0x2e to match this in
preparation for fixing the spurious brightness-down presses.
This change does not have any functional impact since all
of 0x20 - 0x2e is mapped to ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN first and only
then checked against the keymap code and the new 0x2e
value is still in the 0x20 - 0x2e range.
Reported-by: James John <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/a2c441fe-457e-44cf-a146-0ecd86b037cf@xxxxxxxxxxx/
Closes: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2123716
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231017090725.38163-2-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h
index 57a79bddb2861..95612878a841f 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/i8042.h>
#define ASUS_WMI_KEY_IGNORE (-1)
-#define ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN 0x20
+#define ASUS_WMI_BRN_DOWN 0x2e
#define ASUS_WMI_BRN_UP 0x2f
struct module;
