linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] HID: asus: Fix ASUS ROG Laptop's Keyboard backlight handling

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Message-ID: <7566a1df-35d8-4c47-adeb-4f1087a7ce0b@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:45:57 +0100
From: Denis Benato <benato.denis96@...il.com>
To: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@...heas.dev>
Cc: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
 LKML <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 <hansg@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/10] HID: asus: Fix ASUS ROG Laptop's Keyboard
 backlight handling

On 11/13/25 00:22, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 at 23:08, Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@...heas.dev> wrote:
>> snip
>>>> Sure, sorry if it came out this way. Dennis had two comments on the V7
>>>> version of the series.
>>>>
>>>> The first one was that asusctl has a hang bug, which he hasn't had
>>>> time to look into yet. This should have been fixed by dropping the
>>>> HID_QUIRK_INPUT_PER_APP. I retested the series and that QUIRK was a
>>>> bit of a NOOP that does not need to be added in the future.
>>> So it is supposed to not regress it now, correct?
> I missed this. Spaces. Yes, quirk input per app created around 3 more
> input devices per USB device, plus the dynamic lighting one, so you
> went from 2 to 6, and there seems to be an issue with asusctl and a
> large number of event devices, that caused some intermittent freezing
> when the user typed on certain keyboards. I removed it. Although, not
> a problem with the kernel itself, per say.
Okay, I will ask asus-linux kernel man to load this patchset then.
> Antheas
>
>>>> The second is he is concerned with dropping the 0x5d/0x5e inits. Luke
>>>> said (back in March) that it is fine to drop 0x5e because it is only
>>>>> snip