Re: [PATCH v2 RESEND] HID: appletb-kbd: add option to switch default layer on double pressing fn key

From: Aditya Garg

Date: Tue Aug 04 2026 - 03:10:25 EST






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On Monday, 3 August 2026 at 11:07 PM, Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2026, Aditya Garg wrote:
>
> > From: Aditya Garg <gargaditya08@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch enables a user to switch the default layer from media to fn
> > keys and vice-versa upon double pressing the fn key. This behaviour can
> > be configured using the double_press_switch_time module parameter whose
> > value depicts the time in milliseconds within which the fn key must be
> > pressed again to switch the default layer. If set to 0, it simply
> > disables this behaviour.
>
> I know that historically the apple driver had all this kind of tuning as
> kernel module parameters, but wouldn't it make more sense to start using
> sysfs attributes for these?

Having sysfs attributes for some, and module parameters for other tweaks seems more confusing to be tbh.