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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:14:27 +0200
From: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@...heas.dev>
To: Denis Benato <benato.denis96@...il.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>,
 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
	"Luke D . Jones" <luke@...nes.dev>, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/7] HID: asus: Fix ASUS ROG Laptop's Keyboard
 backlight handling

On Thu, 16 Oct 2025 at 13:57, Denis Benato <benato.denis96@...il.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/13/25 22:15, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:
> > This is a two part series which does the following:
> >   - Clean-up init sequence
> >   - Unify backlight handling to happen under asus-wmi so that all Aura
> >     devices have synced brightness controls and the backlight button works
> >     properly when it is on a USB laptop keyboard instead of one w/ WMI.
> >
> > For more context, see cover letter of V1. Since V5, I removed some patches
> > to make this easier to merge.
> >
> > All comments with these patches had been addressed since V4.
> I have loaded this patchset for users of asus-linux project to try out.
>
> One of them opened a bug report about a kernel bug that happens
> consistently when closing the lid of his laptop [1].
>
> He also sent another piece of kernel log, but didn't specify anything more
> about this [2].
>
> [1] https://pastebin.com/akZx1w10
> [2] https://pastebin.com/sKdczPgf

Can you provide a link to the bug report? [2] seems unrelated.

As for [1], it looks like a trace that stems from a sysfs write to
brightness stemming from userspace that follows the same chain it
would on a stock kernel and times out. Is it present on a stock
kernel?

Ilpo should know more about this, could the spinlock be interfering?
My testing on devices that have WMI led controls is a bit limited
unfortunately. However, most of our asus users have been happy with
this series for around half a year now.

Antheas

> > ---
> > V5: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250325184601.10990-1-lkml@antheas.dev/
> > V4: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250324210151.6042-1-lkml@antheas.dev/
> > V3: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250322102804.418000-1-lkml@antheas.dev/
> > V2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250320220924.5023-1-lkml@antheas.dev/
> > V1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250319191320.10092-1-lkml@antheas.dev/
> >
> > Changes since V5:
> >   - It's been a long time
> >   - Remove addition of RGB as that had some comments I need to work on
> >   - Remove folio patch (already merged)
> >   - Remove legacy fix patch 11 from V4. There is a small chance that
> >     without this patch, some old NKEY keyboards might not respond to
> >     RGB commands according to Luke, but the kernel driver does not do
> >     RGB currently. The 0x5d init is done by Armoury crate software in
> >     Windows. If an issue is found, we can re-add it or just remove patches
> >     1/2 before merging. However, init could use the cleanup.
> >
> > Changes since V4:
> >   - Fix KConfig (reported by kernel robot)
> >   - Fix Ilpo's nits, if I missed anything lmk
> >
> > Changes since V3:
> >   - Add initializer for 0x5d for old NKEY keyboards until it is verified
> >     that it is not needed for their media keys to function.
> >   - Cover init in asus-wmi with spinlock as per Hans
> >   - If asus-wmi registers WMI handler with brightness, init the brightness
> >     in USB Asus keyboards, per Hans.
> >   - Change hid handler name to asus-UNIQ:rgb:peripheral to match led class
> >   - Fix oops when unregistering asus-wmi by moving unregister outside of
> >     the spin lock (but after the asus reference is set to null)
> >
> > Changes since V2:
> >   - Check lazy init succeds in asus-wmi before setting register variable
> >   - make explicit check in asus_hid_register_listener for listener existing
> >     to avoid re-init
> >   - rename asus_brt to asus_hid in most places and harmonize everything
> >   - switch to a spinlock instead of a mutex to avoid kernel ooops
> >   - fixup hid device quirks to avoid multiple RGB devices while still exposing
> >     all input vendor devices. This includes moving rgb init to probe
> >     instead of the input_configured callbacks.
> >   - Remove fan key (during retest it appears to be 0xae that is already
> >     supported by hid-asus)
> >   - Never unregister asus::kbd_backlight while asus-wmi is active, as that
> >   - removes fds from userspace and breaks backlight functionality. All
> >   - current mainline drivers do not support backlight hotplugging, so most
> >     userspace software (e.g., KDE, UPower) is built with that assumption.
> >     For the Ally, since it disconnects its controller during sleep, this
> >     caused the backlight slider to not work in KDE.
> >
> > Changes since V1:
> >   - Add basic RGB support on hid-asus, (Z13/Ally) tested in KDE/Z13
> >   - Fix ifdef else having an invalid signature (reported by kernel robot)
> >   - Restore input arguments to init and keyboard function so they can
> >     be re-used for RGB controls.
> >   - Remove Z13 delay (it did not work to fix the touchpad) and replace it
> >     with a HID_GROUP_GENERIC quirk to allow hid-multitouch to load. Squash
> >     keyboard rename into it.
> >   - Unregister brightness listener before removing work queue to avoid
> >     a race condition causing corruption
> >   - Remove spurious mutex unlock in asus_brt_event
> >   - Place mutex lock in kbd_led_set after LED_UNREGISTERING check to avoid
> >     relocking the mutex and causing a deadlock when unregistering leds
> >   - Add extra check during unregistering to avoid calling unregister when
> >     no led device is registered.
> >   - Temporarily HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP from the ROG endpoint as it causes
> >     the driver to create 4 RGB handlers per device. I also suspect some
> >     extra events sneak through (KDE had the @@@@@@).
> >
> > Antheas Kapenekakis (7):
> >   HID: asus: refactor init sequence per spec
> >   HID: asus: prevent binding to all HID devices on ROG
> >   platform/x86: asus-wmi: Add support for multiple kbd RGB handlers
> >   HID: asus: listen to the asus-wmi brightness device instead of
> >     creating one
> >   platform/x86: asus-wmi: remove unused keyboard backlight quirk
> >   platform/x86: asus-wmi: add keyboard brightness event handler
> >   HID: asus: add support for the asus-wmi brightness handler
> >
> >  drivers/hid/hid-asus.c                     | 235 +++++++++++----------
> >  drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c            | 157 ++++++++++++--
> >  include/linux/platform_data/x86/asus-wmi.h |  69 +++---
> >  3 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 170 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > base-commit: 3a8660878839faadb4f1a6dd72c3179c1df56787
>

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