From: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit 67fbe02a5cebc3c653610f12e3c0424e58450153 ]
Recently userspace has started making more use of SW_TABLET_MODE (when an input-dev reports this).
Specifically recent GNOME3 versions will:
1. When SW_TABLET_MODE is reported and is reporting 0: 1.1 Disable accelerometer-based screen auto-rotation 1.2 Disable automatically showing the on-screen keyboard when a text-input field is focussed
2. When SW_TABLET_MODE is reported and is reporting 1: 2.1 Ignore input-events from the builtin keyboard and touchpad (this is for 360° hinges style 2-in-1s where the keyboard and touchpads are accessible on the back of the tablet when folded into tablet-mode)
This means that claiming to support SW_TABLET_MODE when it does not actually work / reports correct values has bad side-effects.
The check in the hp-wmi code which is used to decide if the input-dev should claim SW_TABLET_MODE support, only checks if the HPWMI_HARDWARE_QUERY is supported. It does *not* check if the hardware actually is capable of reporting SW_TABLET_MODE.
This leads to the hp-wmi input-dev claiming SW_TABLET_MODE support, while in reality it will always report 0 as SW_TABLET_MODE value. This has been seen on a "HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-cp0xxx" and this likely is the case on a whole lot of other HP models.
This problem causes both auto-rotation and on-screen keyboard support to not work on affected x360 models.
There is no easy fix for this, but since userspace expects SW_TABLET_MODE reporting to be reliable when advertised it is better to not claim/report SW_TABLET_MODE support at all, then to claim to support it while it does not work.
To avoid the mentioned problems, add a new enable_tablet_mode_sw module-parameter which defaults to false.
Note I've made this an int using the standard -1=auto, 0=off, 1=on triplett, with the hope that in the future we can come up with a better way to detect SW_TABLET_MODE support. ATM the default auto option just does the same as off.
BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1918255 Cc: Stefan Brüns stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Acked-by: Mark Gross mgross@linux.intel.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210120124941.73409-1-hdegoede@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c index 18bf8aeb5f870..e94e59283ecb9 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c @@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:95F24279-4D7B-4334-9387-ACCDC67EF61C"); MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:5FB7F034-2C63-45e9-BE91-3D44E2C707E4");
+static int enable_tablet_mode_sw = -1; +module_param(enable_tablet_mode_sw, int, 0444); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(enable_tablet_mode_sw, "Enable SW_TABLET_MODE reporting (-1=auto, 0=no, 1=yes)"); + #define HPWMI_EVENT_GUID "95F24279-4D7B-4334-9387-ACCDC67EF61C" #define HPWMI_BIOS_GUID "5FB7F034-2C63-45e9-BE91-3D44E2C707E4"
@@ -654,10 +658,12 @@ static int __init hp_wmi_input_setup(void) }
/* Tablet mode */ - val = hp_wmi_hw_state(HPWMI_TABLET_MASK); - if (!(val < 0)) { - __set_bit(SW_TABLET_MODE, hp_wmi_input_dev->swbit); - input_report_switch(hp_wmi_input_dev, SW_TABLET_MODE, val); + if (enable_tablet_mode_sw > 0) { + val = hp_wmi_hw_state(HPWMI_TABLET_MASK); + if (val >= 0) { + __set_bit(SW_TABLET_MODE, hp_wmi_input_dev->swbit); + input_report_switch(hp_wmi_input_dev, SW_TABLET_MODE, val); + } }
err = sparse_keymap_setup(hp_wmi_input_dev, hp_wmi_keymap, NULL);