Re: [PATCH 2/2] HID: multitouch: Support Asus T304UA media keys

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Thu Aug 03 2017 - 05:24:42 EST


On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

> Sorry for the delay. I was at GUADEC the whole past week and couldn't
> get much kernel work done. I was thinking a little bit about this series
> though. Patch 1 is fine, but patch 2 is a little bit more of an issue.
> Ideally, I'd like to keep hid-multitouch from having too many vendor
> specific code, but it looks like this is the easier way to handle things
> here.
>
> I guess the proper way of solving this situation would be to merge the
> generic windows 8 code from hid-multitouch into hid-input so that other
> drivers can benefit from it, but this is going to be a lot of work and
> -ETIME.

Yes, I actually have this on the list of things I'd eventually like to
look into one day ... but we shouldn't let this block any further
development.

I have applied the series now to for-4.14/multitouch (fixing up the
0xff310076 -> HID_VD_ASUS_CUSTOM_MEDIA_KEYS constant in the condition as a
followup).

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs