[PATCH 0/1] Do not map BTN_RIGHT/MIDDLE on buttonpads

[José Expósito]

Hi all,

Historically, libinput has relayed on the INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD property
to detect buttonpads.

Since buttonpads are expected to have only one button (BTN_LEFT),
recently we added a new rule to detect buttonpads: Where a touchpad
maps the BTN_RIGHT bit, libinput assumes it is NOT a buttonpad.

However, this change leaded to several false possitives, so we ended up
reverting it. For more context:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/704

And for a full list of affected hardware, HID reports and bug reports
please see:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/726

My understanding is that buttonpads should not map BTN_RIGHT and/or
BTN_MIDDLE and to avoid it I would like to fix the required drivers.

One option to fix it (this patch) is to clear the bits that might have
been added because of the HID descriptor on every driver.
However, since this code will be common to all drivers, I would like to
ask if you consider it worth it to add a function to handle adding
properties.

A function similar to input_set_capability but for props could be added
in input.h/c:

    /**
     * input_set_property - add a property to the device
     * @dev: device to add the property to
     * @property: type of the property (INPUT_PROP_POINTER, INPUT_PROP_DIRECT...)
     *
     * In addition to setting up corresponding bit in dev->propbit the function
     * might add or remove related capabilities.
     */
    void input_set_property(struct input_dev *dev, unsigned int property)
    {
            switch (property) {
            case INPUT_PROP_POINTER:
            case INPUT_PROP_DIRECT:
            case INPUT_PROP_SEMI_MT:
            case INPUT_PROP_TOPBUTTONPAD:
            case INPUT_PROP_POINTING_STICK:
            case INPUT_PROP_ACCELEROMETER:
                    break;

            case INPUT_PROP_BUTTONPAD:
                    input_set_capability(dev, EV_KEY, BTN_LEFT);
                    __clear_bit(BTN_RIGHT, dev->keybit);
                    __clear_bit(BTN_MIDDLE, dev->keybit);
                    break;

            default:
                    pr_err("%s: unknown property %u\n", __func__, property);
                    dump_stack();
                    return;
            }

            __set_bit(property, dev->propbit);
    }
    EXPORT_SYMBOL(input_set_property);


Which approach do you think is the best?

Thank you very much in advance,
Jose


José Expósito (1):
  HID: multitouch: only map BTN_LEFT on buttonpads

 drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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