Re: [PATCH v2] HID: input: fix a4tech horizontal wheel custom usage

From: Nicolas Saenz Julienne
Date: Fri Jul 05 2019 - 06:28:36 EST


On Fri, 2019-06-14 at 16:25 +0200, Nicolas Saenz Julienne wrote:
> On Fri, 2019-06-14 at 15:36 +0200, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > Hi Wolfgang,
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 1:49 PM Wolfgang Bauer <wbauer@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, 11. Juni 2019, 16:42:37 Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:13 PM Nicolas Saenz Julienne
> > > >
> > > > <nsaenzjulienne@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > NOTE: I CC'd Wolfgang as he's the one who can test this.
> > > >
> > > > I'll wait for Wolfram to confirm that the patch works before pushing
> > > > then.
> > >
> > > My name is Wolfgang, not Wolfram... ;-)
> >
> > ouch, sorry for that (I am more used to talk to the I2C maintainer
> > apparently)
> >
> > > But never mind.
> > >
> > > I tested the patch meanwhile on top of kernel 5.2.rc4, where the mouse
> > > wheel
> > > actually worked.
> >
> > Actually, I am a little bit lost here.
> >
> > The patch mentions a fix of c01908a14bf73, which is in 5.1 final.
> > So if your mouse works in 5.2.rc4, I am not sure how
> > HID-a4tech-fix-horizontal-scrolling.patch could break it.
> >
> > Could you be slightly more specific in what "works" and what doesn't?
>
> Hi Benjamin,
>
> First of all here's the descriptor:
> 0x05, 0x01, /* Usage Page (Desktop), */
> 0x09, 0x02, /* Usage (Mouse), */
> 0xA1, 0x01, /* Collection (Application), */
> 0x09, 0x01, /* Usage (Pointer), */
> 0xA1, 0x00, /* Collection (Physical), */
> 0x05, 0x09, /* Usage Page (Button), */
> 0x19, 0x01, /* Usage Minimum (01h), */
> 0x29, 0x08, /* Usage Maximum (08h), */
> 0x15, 0x00, /* Logical Minimum (0), */
> 0x25, 0x01, /* Logical Maximum (1), */
> 0x75, 0x01, /* Report Size (1), */
> 0x95, 0x08, /* Report Count (8), */
> 0x81, 0x02, /* Input (Variable), */
> 0x05, 0x01, /* Usage Page (Desktop), */
> 0x09, 0x30, /* Usage (X), */
> 0x09, 0x31, /* Usage (Y), */
> 0x09, 0x38, /* Usage (Wheel), */
> 0x09, 0xB8, /* Usage (B8h), */
> 0x15, 0x81, /* Logical Minimum (-127), */
> 0x25, 0x7F, /* Logical Maximum (127), */
> 0x75, 0x08, /* Report Size (8), */
> 0x95, 0x04, /* Report Count (4), */
> 0x81, 0x06, /* Input (Variable, Relative), */
> 0xC0, /* End Collection, */
> 0xC0 /* End Collection
>
>
> Sorry for the confusion, I'll try to explain the situation:
>
> In v5.2-rc4 without "HID-a4tech-fix-horizontal-scrolling.patch" the vertical
> wheel works out of luck as it's mapped to REL_WHEEL_HIGH_RES, which hid-a4tech
> ignores and lets hid-input process, the horizontal wheel is broken. On top of
> that Usage(0xB8) is also ignored by both hid-a4tech and hid-input as it isn't
> mapped to anything.
>
> There are two distinct bugs here:
> - High resolution wheel processing in hid-a4tech not being implemented,
> breaking horizontal wheels.
> - hid-a4tech not taking care of Usage(0xB8) correctly as it depended on it
> being mapped to "Rel.Misc". That behaviour changed in v5.1 with "HID:
> input: add mapping for "Toggle Display" key".
>
> Once high resolution wheel reports are fixed and handled in hid-a4tech's
> custom
> event, the mouse breaks as it's the processing of Usage(0xB8) that triggers
> the
> input_events, which is being ignored.
>
> You'll probably ask how come we didn't see this when
> "HID-a4tech-fix-horizontal-scrolling.patch" was merged. It's due to the fact
> it
> was tested on an older kernel, v5.0.15, that didn't contain "HID: input: add
> mapping for "Toggle Display" key"[1].
>
> So that's why I added that specific fix tag. For LTS kernels, it is possible
> that "Toggle Display" support was back-ported but not the high resolution
> wheels support.

Hi,
Any thoughts on this?

Regards,
Nicolas

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