Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] Input: atkbd: Expose function row physical map to userspace

[Rajat Jain]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:27 PM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 05:35:15AM -0700, Rajat Jain wrote:
> > Certain keyboards have their top-row keys intended
> > for actions such as "Browser back", "Browser Refresh", "Fullscreen"
> > etc as their primary mode, thus they will send physical codes for those
> > actions. Further, they don't have a dedicated "Fn" key so don't have
> > the capability to generate function key codes (e.g. F1, F2 etc..).
> > However in this case, if userspace still wants to "synthesize" those
> > function keys using the top row action keys, it needs to know the
> > physical position of the top row keys. (Essentially a mapping between
> > usage codes and a physical location in the top row).
> >
> > This patch enhances the atkbd driver to receive such a mapping from the
> > firmware / device tree, and expose it to userspace in the form of
> > a function-row-physmap attribute. The attribute would be a space
> > separated ordered list of physical codes, for the keys in the function
> > row, in left-to-right order.
> >
> > The attribute will only be present if the kernel knows about such
> > mapping, otherwise the attribute shall not be visible.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > v2: Remove the Change-Id from the commit log
> >
> >  drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 59 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c b/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
> > index 7e3eae54c1926..7623eebef2593 100644
> > --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c
> > @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
> >  #include <linux/libps2.h>
> >  #include <linux/mutex.h>
> >  #include <linux/dmi.h>
> > +#include <linux/property.h>
> >
> >  #define DRIVER_DESC  "AT and PS/2 keyboard driver"
> >
> > @@ -63,6 +64,8 @@ static bool atkbd_terminal;
> >  module_param_named(terminal, atkbd_terminal, bool, 0);
> >  MODULE_PARM_DESC(terminal, "Enable break codes on an IBM Terminal keyboard connected via AT/PS2");
> >
> > +#define MAX_FUNCTION_ROW_KEYS        24
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * Scancode to keycode tables. These are just the default setting, and
> >   * are loadable via a userland utility.
> > @@ -230,6 +233,9 @@ struct atkbd {
> >
> >       /* Serializes reconnect(), attr->set() and event work */
> >       struct mutex mutex;
> > +
> > +     u16 function_row_physmap[MAX_FUNCTION_ROW_KEYS];
> > +     int num_function_row_keys;
> >  };
> >
> >  /*
> > @@ -283,6 +289,7 @@ static struct device_attribute atkbd_attr_##_name =                               \
> >       __ATTR(_name, S_IRUGO, atkbd_do_show_##_name, NULL);
> >
> >  ATKBD_DEFINE_RO_ATTR(err_count);
> > +ATKBD_DEFINE_RO_ATTR(function_row_physmap);
> >
> >  static struct attribute *atkbd_attributes[] = {
> >       &atkbd_attr_extra.attr,
> > @@ -292,11 +299,42 @@ static struct attribute *atkbd_attributes[] = {
> >       &atkbd_attr_softrepeat.attr,
> >       &atkbd_attr_softraw.attr,
> >       &atkbd_attr_err_count.attr,
> > +     &atkbd_attr_function_row_physmap.attr,
> >       NULL
> >  };
> >
> > +static ssize_t atkbd_show_function_row_physmap(struct atkbd *atkbd, char *buf)
> > +{
> > +     ssize_t size = 0;
> > +     int i;
> > +
> > +     if (!atkbd->num_function_row_keys)
> > +             return 0;
> > +
> > +     for (i = 0; i < atkbd->num_function_row_keys; i++)
> > +             size += sprintf(buf + size, "%02X ",
> > +                             atkbd->function_row_physmap[i]);
> > +     size += sprintf(buf + size, "\n");
> > +     return size;
> > +}
> > +
> > +static umode_t atkbd_attr_is_visible(struct kobject *kobj,
> > +                             struct attribute *attr, int i)
> > +{
> > +     struct device *dev = container_of(kobj, struct device, kobj);
> > +     struct serio *serio = to_serio_port(dev);
> > +     struct atkbd *atkbd = serio_get_drvdata(serio);
> > +
> > +     if (attr == &atkbd_attr_function_row_physmap.attr &&
> > +         !atkbd->num_function_row_keys)
> > +             return 0;
> > +
> > +     return attr->mode;
> > +}
> > +
> >  static struct attribute_group atkbd_attribute_group = {
> >       .attrs  = atkbd_attributes,
> > +     .is_visible = atkbd_attr_is_visible,
> >  };
> >
> >  static const unsigned int xl_table[] = {
> > @@ -1121,6 +1159,25 @@ static void atkbd_set_device_attrs(struct atkbd *atkbd)
> >       }
> >  }
> >
> > +static void atkbd_parse_fwnode_data(struct serio *serio)
> > +{
> > +     struct atkbd *atkbd = serio_get_drvdata(serio);
> > +     struct device *dev = &serio->dev;
> > +     int n;
> > +
> > +     if (!dev_fwnode(dev))
> > +             return;
>
> I do not think we need this guard.

Done.

>
> > +
> > +     /* Parse "function-row-physmap" property */
> > +     n = device_property_count_u16(dev, "function-row-physmap");
> > +     if (n > 0 && n <= MAX_FUNCTION_ROW_KEYS &&
> > +         !device_property_read_u16_array(dev, "function-row-physmap",
> > +                                         atkbd->function_row_physmap, n)) {
> > +             atkbd->num_function_row_keys = n;
> > +             dev_info(dev, "FW reported %d function-row key locations\n", n);
>
> dev_dbg().

Done.

>
> > +     }
> > +}
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * atkbd_connect() is called when the serio module finds an interface
> >   * that isn't handled yet by an appropriate device driver. We check if
> > @@ -1184,6 +1241,8 @@ static int atkbd_connect(struct serio *serio, struct serio_driver *drv)
> >               atkbd->id = 0xab00;
> >       }
> >
> > +     atkbd_parse_fwnode_data(serio);
> > +
> >       atkbd_set_keycode_table(atkbd);
> >       atkbd_set_device_attrs(atkbd);
> >
> > --
> > 2.25.1.696.g5e7596f4ac-goog
> >
>
> --
> Dmitry