Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.20 008/117] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Tell the EC the OS will handle the display off hotkey

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On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 04:49:18PM -0800, João Paulo Rechi Vita wrote:
Hello Sasha,

On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:26 AM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 78f3ac76d9e5219589718b9e4733bee21627b3f5 ]

In the past, Asus firmwares would change the panel backlight directly
through the EC when the display off hotkey (Fn+F7) was pressed, and
only notify the OS of such change, with 0x33 when the LCD was ON and
0x34 when the LCD was OFF. These are currently mapped to
KEY_DISPLAYTOGGLE and KEY_DISPLAY_OFF, respectively.

Most recently the EC on Asus most machines lost ability to toggle the
LCD backlight directly, but unless the OS informs the firmware it is
going to handle the display toggle hotkey events, the firmware still
tries change the brightness through the EC, to no effect. The end result
is a long list (at Endless we counted 11) of Asus laptop models where
the display toggle hotkey does not perform any action. Our firmware
engineers contacts at Asus were surprised that there were still machines
out there with the old behavior.

Calling WMNB(ASUS_WMI_DEVID_BACKLIGHT==0x00050011, 2) on the _WDG device
tells the firmware that it should let the OS handle the display toggle
event, in which case it will simply notify the OS of a key press with
0x35, as shown by the DSDT excerpts bellow.

 Scope (_SB)
 {
     (...)

     Device (ATKD)
     {
         (...)

         Name (_WDG, Buffer (0x28)
         {
             /* 0000 */  0xD0, 0x5E, 0x84, 0x97, 0x6D, 0x4E, 0xDE, 0x11,
             /* 0008 */  0x8A, 0x39, 0x08, 0x00, 0x20, 0x0C, 0x9A, 0x66,
             /* 0010 */  0x4E, 0x42, 0x01, 0x02, 0x35, 0xBB, 0x3C, 0x0B,
             /* 0018 */  0xC2, 0xE3, 0xED, 0x45, 0x91, 0xC2, 0x4C, 0x5A,
             /* 0020 */  0x6D, 0x19, 0x5D, 0x1C, 0xFF, 0x00, 0x01, 0x08
         })
         Method (WMNB, 3, Serialized)
         {
             CreateDWordField (Arg2, Zero, IIA0)
             CreateDWordField (Arg2, 0x04, IIA1)
             Local0 = (Arg1 & 0xFFFFFFFF)

             (...)

             If ((Local0 == 0x53564544))
             {
                 (...)

                 If ((IIA0 == 0x00050011))
                 {
                     If ((IIA1 == 0x02))
                     {
                         ^^PCI0.SBRG.EC0.SPIN (0x72, One)
                         ^^PCI0.SBRG.EC0.BLCT = One
                     }

                     Return (One)
                 }
             }
             (...)
         }
         (...)
     }
     (...)
 }
 (...)

 Scope (_SB.PCI0.SBRG.EC0)
 {
     (...)

     Name (BLCT, Zero)

     (...)

     Method (_Q10, 0, NotSerialized)  // _Qxx: EC Query
     {
         If ((BLCT == Zero))
         {
             Local0 = One
             Local0 = RPIN (0x72)
             Local0 ^= One
             SPIN (0x72, Local0)
             If (ATKP)
             {
                 Local0 = (0x34 - Local0)
                 ^^^^ATKD.IANE (Local0)
             }
         }
         ElseIf ((BLCT == One))
         {
             If (ATKP)
             {
                 ^^^^ATKD.IANE (0x35)
             }
         }
     }
     (...)
 }

Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

I am not entirely sure this is linux-stable material. This patch makes
the "turn off the display backlight" hotkey work on some Asus machines
where, without this patch, the key would simply do nothing. It seems
to me this is more of a new feature support than a bug fix. That said,
if you or Andy think this should go to stable after this short
explanation, I'll not object it.

I think I'll keep this in. It looks a lot like a quirk to make this
device work.

--
Thanks,
Sasha



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