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

From: Pablo Ceballos
Date: Thu May 12 2022 - 18:35:26 EST


On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:53 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2022, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > I am curious, could not this be achieved without a kernel driver by
> > simply using udev to map this usage code to KEY_RESERVED?
>
> Hmm, good point, using KEY_RESERVED mapping to achieve the key being
> actually ignored didn't immediately occur to me.
>
> Pablo, could you please verify that it behaves in the expected way, and
> confirm that we could drop the 'driver' in favor of udev rule?

I think I've achieved the same result by adding the following to udev
hwdb. Dmitry, is this what you had in mind, or is there a better way
of doing this?

evdev:input:b0003v18D1p8001*
KEYBOARD_KEY_b002f=reserved

Pablo