Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: Add Driver to set up lid GPEs on MS Surface device

[Maximilian Luz]

On 9/12/20 12:10 AM, mark gross wrote:
> Surface devices are tablets with detachable keyboards.  they don't really
> have a "lid" as the tablet is the "lid".

The Surface Laptop series doesn't have a detachable keyboard, yet still
requires this. Arguably, the Surface Books are also more laptop than
tablet (at least that's the way I use mine...). Finally, on the actual
tablets (Surface Pro series) the lid switch detects when the keyboard
cover is opened (or at least that's what I have been told, I don't
own/have access to a Pro series device).

Regardless of that, this patch is intended to provide the same behavior
as found on Windows, for all devices included in this patch, which is:
When you open the lid, or in case of the Pro series fold away the
keyboard cover, the device wakes from suspend/s2idle. Without this
patch, that doesn't work.

> I'm just questioning if the creator of the device designed it the way they did
> maybe we should think twice about doing this.

As far as I can tell, the intended behavior is to wake the device when
the lid is opened, which on the Laptops and Books is a more conventional
lid and on the Pros constitutes opening the cover.

I'm open for any alternative though.

Also please note that I've already sent a v2 of this patch with Andy's
comments addressed: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1303997/

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Regards,
Max