linux-kernel - [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Do not load on Asus T100TA and T200TA

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Message-Id: <20200422220559.99726-1-hdegoede@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:05:59 +0200
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
Cc:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-nb-wmi: Do not load on Asus T100TA and T200TA

asus-nb-wmi does not add any extra functionality on these Asus
Transformer books. They have detachable keyboards, so the hotkeys are
send through a HID device (and handled by the hid-asus driver) and also
the rfkill functionality is not used on these devices.

Besides not adding any extra functionality, initializing the WMI interface
on these devices actually has a negative side-effect. For some reason
the \_SB.ATKD.INIT() function which asus_wmi_platform_init() calls drives
GPO2 (INT33FC:02) pin 8, which is connected to the front facing webcam LED,
high and there is no (WMI or other) interface to drive this low again
causing the LED to be permanently on, even during suspend.

This commit adds a blacklist of DMI system_ids on which not to load the
asus-nb-wmi and adds these Transformer books to this list. This fixes
the webcam LED being permanently on under Linux.

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c
index 6f12747a359a..c4404d9c1de4 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-nb-wmi.c
@@ -515,9 +515,33 @@ static struct asus_wmi_driver asus_nb_wmi_driver = {
 	.detect_quirks = asus_nb_wmi_quirks,
 };

+static const struct dmi_system_id asus_nb_wmi_blacklist[] __initconst = {
+	{
+		/*
+		 * asus-nb-wm adds no functionality. The T100TA has a detachable
+		 * USB kbd, so no hotkeys and it has no WMI rfkill; and loading
+		 * asus-nb-wm causes the camera LED to turn and _stay_ on.
+		 */
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC."),
+			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "T100TA"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+		/* The Asus T200TA has the same issue as the T100TA */
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC."),
+			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "T200TA"),
+		},
+	},
+	{} /* Terminating entry */
+};

 static int __init asus_nb_wmi_init(void)
 {
+	if (dmi_check_system(asus_nb_wmi_blacklist))
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	return asus_wmi_register_driver(&asus_nb_wmi_driver);
 }

-- 
2.26.0