From: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com
commit b8a75eaddae9410767c7d95a1c5f3a547aae7b81 upstream.
By default the G1-G12 keys on the Logitech gaming keyboards send F1 - F12 when in "generic HID" mode.
The first thing the hid-lg-g15 driver does is disable this behavior.
We have received a bugreport that this does not work when the keyboard is connected through an Aten KVM switch. Using a gaming keyboard with a KVM is a bit weird setup, but still we can try to fail a bit more gracefully here.
On the G510 keyboards the same USB-interface which is used for the gaming keys is also used for the media-keys. Before this commit we would call hid_hw_stop() on failure to disable the F# emulation and then exit the probe method with an error code.
This not only causes us to not handle the gaming-keys, but this also breaks the media keys which is a regression compared to the situation when these keyboards where handled by the generic hidinput driver.
This commit changes the error handling to clear the hiddev drvdata (to disable our .raw_event handler) and then returning from the probe method with success.
The net result of this is that, when connected through a KVM, things work as well as they did before the hid-lg-g15 driver was introduced.
Fixes: ad4203f5a243 ("HID: lg-g15: Add support for the G510 keyboards' gaming keys") BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1806321 Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina jkosina@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- drivers/hid/hid-lg-g15.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-lg-g15.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-lg-g15.c @@ -803,8 +803,10 @@ static int lg_g15_probe(struct hid_devic }
if (ret < 0) { - hid_err(hdev, "Error disabling keyboard emulation for the G-keys\n"); - goto error_hw_stop; + hid_err(hdev, "Error %d disabling keyboard emulation for the G-keys, falling back to generic hid-input driver\n", + ret); + hid_set_drvdata(hdev, NULL); + return 0; }
/* Get initial brightness levels */