Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] asus-wmi driver fails on my laptop

[Armin Wolf]

Am 06.12.24 um 22:18 schrieb Yurii Strilets:

> Thank you very much for the fix!
> I am terribly sorry about a faulty report, I did just find out I had an issue during the mainline build.

There is nothing faulty about your report, the necessary fix is still not available in any stable kernels.
On the contrary i am happy that so many users are reporting this issue, because otherwise we would have
never heard of it :)

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

> Dec 6, 2024 20:15:05 Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>:
>
> > Am 06.12.24 um 14:33 schrieb Yura Strilets:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > After upgrading from 6.11 to 6.12 a bunch of Fn+Fx buttons(touchpad,
> > > mic, kb backlight, my asus) stopped working and the
> > > /sys/(...)/asus::kbd_backlight interface is missing, which,
> > > considering the dmesg, looks like an asus-wmi driver issue.
> > >
> > > I've been able to bisect the issue to the commit
> > > [b012170fed282151f7ba8988a347670c299f5ab3] "platform/x86: asus-wmi:
> > > Fix thermal profile initialization"
> > >
> > > Additionally, here's some maybe-helpful information:
> > > my laptop's model -- ASUS Zenbook UX3402VA
> > > linux distro -- Arch Linux
> > > .config for bisection -- was taken from /proc/config.gz at 6.12.1 arch
> > > kernel(attached in [1]) and missing options are default
> > > dmesg logs -- The "grep asus" parts of both good and bad scenarios can
> > > be seen below and full logs are at [2] and [3]
> > >
> > > == bad.log ==
> > > [    3.664546] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
> > > [    3.713358] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1
> > > [    3.714126] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x21
> > > [    3.714131] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: Detected ATK, not ASUSWMI, use
> > > DSTS
> > > [    3.757420] asus_wmi: Failed to set throttle thermal policy
> > > (retval): 0x0
> > > [    3.757425] asus_wmi: Failed to set default thermal profile
> > > [    3.757429] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: probe with driver asus-nb-wmi
> > > failed with error -5
> > > == end ==
> > >
> > > == good.log ==
> > > [    4.557898] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
> > > [    4.776587] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1
> > > [    4.777253] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x21
> > > [    4.777256] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: Detected ATK, not ASUSWMI, use
> > > DSTS
> > > [    4.777258] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: Detected ATK, enable event queue
> > > [    4.805497] input: Asus WMI hotkeys as
> > > /devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/input/input15
> > > == end ==
> > >
> > > [1] .config - https://pastebin.com/raw/3nDSV8Sm
> > > [2] bad.log - https://pastebin.com/raw/fvR5Sjzt
> > > [3] good.log - https://pastebin.com/raw/EazfLAWA
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Yurii
> > I am aware of this issue, the necessary fix (commit 25fb5f47f34d) was already submitted upstream and will likely
> > show up in the stable kernels soon.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Armin Wolf