Re: [PATCH] iio: accel: add missing sensor for some 2-in-1 based ultrabooks

[luis]

April 6, 2019 10:36 AM, "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

> Yes that seems the best way forward with this.
> 
> Note I think "base" is better then "keyboard" for the sensor which
> is in the base/keyboard. But neither is perfect, so go which whatever
> you prefer.

Reference to:
- https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/pull/262
- https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/12322

Regards,
LuÃs

> Hi,
> 
> On 06-04-19 01:01, LuÃs Ferreira wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> Basically we need to come up with a convention to (optionally) indicate
> 
> the sensors location with a udev attribute set by:
> /lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-sensor.hwdb
>> So should we start adding `ACCEL_LOCATION=display` and
>> `ACCEL_LOCATION=keyboard` attributes to that file and patch
>> iio-sensor-proxy to ignore the keyboard ones as a first step ?
> 
> Yes that seems the best way forward with this.
> 
> Note I think "base" is better then "keyboard" for the sensor which
> is in the base/keyboard. But neither is perfect, so go which whatever
> you prefer.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
>> On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 10:10, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 02-04-19 18:04, LuÃs Ferreira wrote:
>> Some ultrabooks, like Teclast F6 Pro, use KIOX010A sensor on display
>> and KIOX020A sensor on keyboard base, to detect tablet mode or screen
>> orientation.
> 
> I deliberately left out the KIOX020A id for now, because currently
> userspace cannot really deal with having 2 sensors.
> 
> See:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6557
> https://github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/166
> 
> Basically we need to come up with a convention to (optionally) indicate
> the sensors location with a udev attribute set by:
> /lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-sensor.hwdb
> 
> And then patch iio-sensor-proxy to consume that attribute and ignore
> the one which has e.g. ACCEL_LOCATION=keyboard in its udev properties
> 
> Ignoring would be a first step, maybe later it can do something useful
> with it, see e.g. : https://github.com/alesguzik/linux_detect_tablet_mode
> 
> IMHO we really should minimally get code in place for iio-sensor-proxy
> to ignore the keyboard accelerometer before merging this patch.
> 
> I realize that having the code in place will not magically get it on
> all users machines, but I believe this is the minimum which needs to
> happen before we push this out and potentially breaks people screen
> rotation.
> 
> I've had working on this on my TODO list for a long long time now,
> but -ENOTIME. If you have some time to work on this then that would
> be great.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
>> Signed-off-by: LuÃs Ferreira <luis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/iio/accel/kxcjk-1013.c | 1 +
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/accel/kxcjk-1013.c b/drivers/iio/accel/kxcjk-1013.c
>> index 7096e577b23f..9a5e445facc1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/accel/kxcjk-1013.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/accel/kxcjk-1013.c
>> @@ -1492,6 +1492,7 @@ static const struct acpi_device_id kx_acpi_match[] = {
>> {"KIOX0009", KXTJ21009},
>> {"KIOX000A", KXCJ91008},
>> {"KIOX010A", KXCJ91008}, /* KXCJ91008 inside the display of a 2-in-1 */
>> + {"KIOX020A", KXCJ91008},
>> {"KXTJ1009", KXTJ21009},
>> {"KXJ2109", KXTJ21009},
>> {"SMO8500", KXCJ91008},