Re: [PATCH] hid: asus: ROG NKey: Ignore portion of 0x5a report

[Jiri Kosina]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2022, Josh Kilmer wrote:

> On an Asus G513QY, of the 5 bytes in a 0x5a report, only the first byte
> is a meaningful keycode. The other bytes are zeroed out or hold garbage
> from the last packet sent to the keyboard.
> 
> This patch fixes up the report descriptor for this event so that the
> general hid code will only process 1 byte for keycodes, avoiding
> spurious key events and unmapped Asus vendor usagepage code warnings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Kilmer <srjek2@xxxxxxxxx>

Hi Josh,

thanks for the patch.

A couple remarks:

> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c b/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
> index 08c9a9a60ae4..73fb9fc0701c 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
> @@ -1212,6 +1212,14 @@ static __u8 *asus_report_fixup(struct
> hid_device *hdev, __u8 *rdesc,
>         rdesc = new_rdesc;
>     }
> 
> +   if (drvdata->quirks & QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD &&
> +           *rsize == 331 && rdesc[190] == 0x85 && rdesc[191] == 0x5a &&
> +           rdesc[204] == 0x95 && rdesc[205] == 0x05) {
> +       hid_info(hdev, "Fixing up Asus N-KEY keyb report descriptor\n");
> +       // On the 0x5A input report, change count from 5 to 1
> +       rdesc[205] = 0x01;
> +   }

- your mail client whitespace-damaged the patch, so it can't be applied; 
  could you please fix that and resend?

- the comment above is (a) using non-standard kernel commenting style, and 
  quite honestly (b) seems a little bit superfluous

Could you please fix that up and resend?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs