[PATCH v2 0/3] platform/x86: fix fn-lock on ASUS ProArt P16 (WMI DEVS no-op)
From: Marcus Grenängen
Date: Wed May 06 2026 - 15:33:52 EST
This is v2 of the fn-lock fix for ASUS laptops where the WMI DEVS call
for DEVID 0x00100023 is silently non-functional.
Changes since v1:
- Split into three patches as requested: hid-asus export, nb-wmi quirk,
asus-armoury attribute (the NULL-ptr fix for brightness_set is folded
into patch 1 where the second listener type is introduced)
- Moved the sysfs attribute to asus-armoury's firmware-attributes
interface (fn_lock under /sys/class/firmware-attributes/asus-armoury/)
instead of asus-wmi, as suggested
- asus-armoury now calls asus_hid_fnlock_notify() directly rather than
routing through asus-wmi; this avoids touching asus-wmi.c entirely
- Dropped the asus_hid_listener::fnlock_set callback and the
asus_hid_set_fnlock() / asus_hid_has_fnlock_listener() machinery from
asus-wmi.c — the direct export from hid-asus is simpler and avoids
the module init ordering issue described below
Regarding Denis's question about auto-detection: unfortunately it is not
feasible. On the ProArt P16, DSTS reports DEVID 0x00100023 as present
(ASUS_WMI_DSTS_PRESENCE_BIT set), so the existing WMI probe path finds
it. There is no distinguishing bit in the DSTS result between "WMI works"
and "WMI is silently a no-op". Attempting a test write at probe time would
be unreliable (no readback available on HID-path platforms — the fn_lock
show function intentionally returns -EOPNOTSUPP). A DMI quirk is the
cleanest approach.
Note on module init ordering: asus-armoury and asus-nb-wmi are both
compiled as loadable modules at the same init level. When asus-armoury
initialises it cannot safely dereference asus_ref.asus (set by asus-wmi)
to read the quirk flags, because asus-nb-wmi may not have probed yet.
asus-armoury therefore uses dmi_match() directly rather than an exported
accessor through asus-wmi.
Tested on ASUS ProArt P16 (H7606WI, N-Key keyboard 0B05:19B6):
- fn_lock attribute appears under firmware-attributes/asus-armoury/
- Writing 0/1 to current_value correctly toggles fn-lock state via HID
- asusctl fn-lock -s true/false works end-to-end via asusd
Marcus Grenängen (3):
HID: asus: export asus_hid_fnlock_notify() for direct fn-lock control
platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: add fnlock_use_hid quirk for ProArt P16
platform/x86: asus-armoury: add fn_lock firmware attribute
drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 43 +++++++++++++-
drivers/platform/x86/asus-armoury.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 13 ++++
drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.h | 5 ++
include/linux/platform_data/x86/asus-wmi.h | 5 ++
5 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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