Message-ID: <76d92fdc-ad0a-40a2-9e1b-d550f8e07267@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:34:40 +0200
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@...ebb.ca>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
 ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
 "platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org" <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nitin Joshi1 <njoshi1@...ovo.com>,
 Vishnu Sankar <vsankar@...ovo.com>,
 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...hat.com>,
 Vishnu Sankar <vishnuocv@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Support for
 trackpoint doubletap

Hi Mark,

On 4/18/24 1:57 AM, Mark Pearson wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2024, at 4:06 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> On 4/17/24 9:39 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>>> Thank you for the new version of this series, overall this looks good,
>>> one small remark below.
>>>
>>> On 4/17/24 7:31 PM, Mark Pearson wrote:
>>>> Lenovo trackpoints are adding the ability to generate a doubletap event.
>>>> This handles the doubletap event and sends the KEY_PROG1 event to
>>>> userspace.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@...ebb.ca>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Sankar <vishnuocv@...il.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>>  - Use KEY_PROG1 instead of KEY_DOUBLETAP as input maintainer doesn't
>>>>    want new un-specific key codes added.
>>>>  - Add doubletap to hotkey scan code table and use existing hotkey
>>>>    functionality.
>>>>  - Tested using evtest, and then gnome settings to configure a custom shortcut
>>>>    to launch an application.
>>>>
>>>>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>>>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
>>>> index 3b48d893280f..6d04d45e8d45 100644
>>>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
>>>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
>>>> @@ -232,6 +232,9 @@ enum tpacpi_hkey_event_t {
>>>>  
>>>>  	/* Misc */
>>>>  	TP_HKEY_EV_RFKILL_CHANGED	= 0x7000, /* rfkill switch changed */
>>>> +
>>>> +	/* Misc2 */
>>>> +	TP_HKEY_EV_TRACK_DOUBLETAP      = 0x8036, /* trackpoint doubletap */
>>>>  };
>>>>  
>>>>  /****************************************************************************
>>>> @@ -1786,6 +1789,7 @@ enum {	/* hot key scan codes (derived from ACPI DSDT) */
>>>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_NOTIFICATION_CENTER,
>>>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_PICKUP_PHONE,
>>>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_HANGUP_PHONE,
>>>
>>> I understand why you've done this but I think this needs a comment,
>>> something like:
>>>
>>>         /*
>>>          * For TP_HKEY_EV_TRACK_DOUBLETAP, unlike the codes above which map to:
>>>          * (hkey_event - 0x1300) + TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_EXTENDED_START, this is
>>>          * hardcoded for TP_HKEY_EV_TRACK_DOUBLETAP handling. Therefor this must
>>>          * always be the last entry (after any 0x1300-0x13ff entries).
>>>          */
>>> +	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_DOUBLETAP,
>>
>> Ugh, actually this will not work becuuse we want hotkeyscancodes to be stable
>> because these are userspace API since they can be remapped using hwdb so we
>> cannot have the hotkeyscancode changing when new 0x1300-0x13ff range entries
>> get added.
>>
>> So we need to either grow the table a lot and reserve a whole bunch of space
>> for future 0x13xx - 0x13ff codes or maybe something like this:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c 
>> b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
>> index 771aaa7ae4cf..af3279889ecc 100644
>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
>> @@ -1742,7 +1742,12 @@ enum {	/* hot key scan codes (derived from ACPI 
>> DSDT) */
>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_VOLUMEDOWN,
>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_MUTE,
>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_THINKPAD,
>> -	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_UNK1,
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Note this gets send both on 0x1019 and on 
>> TP_HKEY_EV_TRACK_DOUBLETAP
>> +	 * hotkey-events. 0x1019 events have never been seen on any actual hw
>> +	 * and a scancode is needed for the special 0x8036 doubletap 
>> hotkey-event.
>> +	 */
>> +	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_DOUBLETAP,
>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_UNK2,
>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_UNK3,
>>  	TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_UNK4,
>>
>> or just hardcode KEY_PROG1 like your previous patch does, but I'm not
>> a fan of that because of loosing hwdb remapping functionality for this
>> "key" then.
>>
>> Note I'm open to other suggestions.
>>
> Oh...I hadn't thought of that impact. That's not great :(
> 
> I have an idea, but want to prototype it to see if it works out or not. Will update once I've had a chance to play with it.

Thinking more about this I just realized that the input subsystem
already has a mechanism for dealing with scancode ranges with
(big) holes in them in the form of linux/input/sparse-keymap.h .

I think that what needs to be done is convert the existing code
to use sparse-keymap, keeping the mapping of the "MHKP"
returned hkey codes to internal TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_* values
for currently supported "MHKP" hkey codes for compatibility
and then for new codes just directly map them in the sparse map
aka the struct key_entry table. After converting the existing code
to use sparse-keymap, then for the new events we would simply add:


	{ KE_KEY, 0x131d, { KEY_VENDOR} }, /* Fn + N, system debug info */
	{ KE_KEY, 0x8036, { KEY_PROG1 } }, /* Trackpoint doubletap */

entries to the table without needing to define intermediate
TP_ACPI_HOTKEYSCAN_* values for these.

I already have somewhat of a design for this in my head and I really
believe this is the way forward as it uses existing kernel infra
and it will avoid hitting this problem again when some other new
"MHKP" hkey codes show up.

I plan to start working on implementing conversion of the existing
code to use sparse-keymap, which should result in a nice cleanup
after lunch and I hope to have something for you to test no later
then next Tuesday.

Regards,

Hans

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