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* [PATCH v7 0/3] HID: generic: add LampArray support via hid-lamparray helper
@ 2026-10-20  9:51 Aaron Erhardt
  2026-10-20  9:51 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] HID: lamparray: add new LampArray helper module Aaron Erhardt
                   ` (2 more replies)
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From: Aaron Erhardt @ 2026-10-20  9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jiri Kosina, Benjamin Tissoires
  Cc: Cristian Mazzotta, Werner Sembach, Armin Wolf, linux-kernel,
	linux-input, linux-leds, Tim Guttzeit, Aaron Erhardt

Add a new hid-lamparray helper module and integrate it with the
hid-generic driver.

While more complex lamparray handling should be done in userspace via
hidraw, providing a small module to add basic lamparray support makes it
possible for userspace software to interact with lamparrays by simply
using well-known APIs of the LED subsystem. One use-case would be to
enable desktop environments to support keyboard backlight control out of
the box for HID lamparray devices without having to implement the whole
HID protocol themselves.

This patch is based on previous discussions:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/1fb08a74-62c7-4d0c-ba5d-648e23082dcb@tuxedocomputers.com/

The helper provides basic support for devices exposing a
Lighting/LampArray application collection (usage page 0x59) and
registers a single-zone RGB LED representation via the LED subsystem.

hid-generic now checks for LampArray support after hid_parse() and
optionally registers a lamparray instance. Failures in the helper do not
abort device probe to keep the driver logic otherwise unchanged.

LampArray resources are released on driver remove.

This commit was successfully tested on the Microsoft MacroPad reference
implementation (https://github.com/microsoft/RP2040MacropadHidSample
1d6c3ad) and in combination with the tuxedo_nb04_wmi driver, albeit only
fully functional with a recent fix already on
platform-drivers-x86/for-next
(https://lore.kernel.org/all/20261007080202.81694-1-aer@tuxedocomputers.com).

Others reported the driver to work on the Acer Predator PT14-52T and the
ASUS Prime B650-Plus, with the former requiring some patches on top of
v5, which should now be included in v6.

v7:
- Use white with zero brightness as new default
- Fix measurements in comments and commit message
v6:
- Read attribute reports synchronously (by Cristian Mazotta)
- Raise log level of fatal probe errors (by Cristian Mazotta)
- Transfer control when use_leds_uapi changes (by Cristian Mazotta)
- Blank lamps across suspend and restore on resume (by Cristian Mazotta)
- Add quirk for devices that ignore intensities (reported by Armin Wolf)
- Better locking, fixing rare races in uapi registration
- Use scope guards for locking and allocations where possible
- Remove obsolete calls to led_mc_calc_color_components and
  hid_device_io_start/stop
- Updated and slightly improved documentation
v5:
- Proper hardware detection (no quirks necessary anymore)
- Add documentation for new sysfs knob
- Pass limits of the device to sysfs (intensities & brightness)
- More flexible Kconfig (use tristate)
- Improved locking
- Several memory leak and (de-)initialization fixes
- Don't read current color values from hardware (the HID spec does not
  offer this option)
- Remove redundant report dump functionality
v4:
- Restrict CONFIG_HID_LAMPARRAY to built-in configurations only to fix
  additional randconfig build errors
v3:
- Squash V1 and V2 into one patch
v2:
- Fix Kconfig to avoid build errors when LEDS_CLASS_MULTICOLOR is
  disabled

---
Aaron Erhardt (2):
      HID: lamparray: add new LampArray helper module
      HID: generic: add LampArray support via hid-lamparray helper

Cristian Mazzotta (1):
      HID: lamparray: blank lamps across suspend and restore on resume

 .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-lamparray         |  15 +
 drivers/hid/Kconfig                                |  18 +
 drivers/hid/Makefile                               |   2 +
 drivers/hid/hid-generic.c                          |  70 +-
 drivers/hid/hid-lamparray.c                        | 912 +++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/hid-lamparray.h                      | 118 +++
 6 files changed, 1134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
---
base-commit: f47d223627f80cb7a1eb14c585fe6cb35de5e984
change-id: 20261020-hid-lamparray-6f76a2791e8b

Best regards,
--  
Aaron Erhardt <aer@tuxedocomputers.com>


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