Re: [PATCH] intel-vbtn: match power button on press rather than release

From: Darren Hart
Date: Sat Aug 05 2017 - 16:58:12 EST


On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 01:30:20AM +0200, Rafael Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, August 4, 2017 7:29:53 PM CEST Darren Hart wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> > > This fixes a problem where the system gets stuck in a loop
> > > unable to wakeup via power button in s2idle.
> > >
> > > The problem happens because:
> > > - press power button:
> > > - system emits 0xc0 (power press), event ignored
> > > - system emits 0xc1 (power release), event processed,
> > > emited as KEY_POWER
> > > - set wakeup_mode to true
> > > - system goes to s2idle
> > > - press power button
> > > - system emits 0xc0 (power press), wakeup_mode is true,
> > > system wakes
> > > - system emits 0xc1 (power release), event processed,
> > > emited as KEY_POWER
> > > - system goes to s2idle again
> > >
> > > To avoid this situation, process the presses (which matches what
> > > intel-hid does too).
> > >
> > > Verified on an Dell XPS 9365
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This looks good to me - responding to the release is non-intuitive IMHO
> > anyway. I'd like to see agreement from AceLan, but this should go into
> > the 4.13 rc cycle (at rc3 currently).
>
> Yes, it should, and I'm not sure if the original author's opinion matters here.
>
> The patch makes sense to everyone involved and fixes an annoying issue, so
> I don't see any real arguments against applying it.
>
> Please feel free to add my ACK to it if that helps.

I always try to give those in MAINTAINERS a chance to respond, but I will queue
this up to fixes now.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center