Re: [PATCH] HID: Driver for Google Hangouts Meet Speakermic

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 05:34:20 EST


On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 10:28 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Pablo Ceballos wrote:
>
> > This driver works around a problem with the HID usage sent by this
> > device for the mute button. It prevents key events from being generated
> > for that HID usage since they would be incorrect.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pablo Ceballos <pceballos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Applied to hid.git#for-5.19/google. Thanks,

I am curious, could not this be achieved without a kernel driver by
simply using udev to map this usage code to KEY_RESERVED?

Thanks.

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Dmitry