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authorHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2020-09-30 15:19:05 +0200
committerAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>2020-10-02 17:54:44 +0300
commit8169bd3e6e193497cab781acddcff8fde5d0c416 (patch)
tree68b6ea54874dd9a6a2f981a3e0b555646cf9ec46 /drivers/platform
parent21d64817c72470ed69483f59279ce557c0658826 (diff)
downloadlinux-8169bd3e6e193497cab781acddcff8fde5d0c416.tar.gz
platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Switch to an allow-list for SW_TABLET_MODE reporting
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@protonmail.com> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/platform')
-rw-r--r--drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c52
1 files 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);