Re: [PATCH] HID: Driver for Google Hangouts Meet Speakermic

Pablo Ceballos
2022-05-16T15:03:52Z

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:48 PM Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 03:35:00PM -0700, Pablo Ceballos wrote:
> > On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 3:53 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 12 May 2022, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > I am curious, could not this be achieved without a kernel driver by
> > > > simply using udev to map this usage code to KEY_RESERVED?
> > >
> > > Hmm, good point, using KEY_RESERVED mapping to achieve the key being
> > > actually ignored didn't immediately occur to me.
> > >
> > > Pablo, could you please verify that it behaves in the expected way, and
> > > confirm that we could drop the 'driver' in favor of udev rule?
Jiri, this driver can be dropped from 5.19. The udev rule works just as well.

> >
> > I think I've achieved the same result by adding the following to udev
> > hwdb. Dmitry, is this what you had in mind, or is there a better way
> > of doing this?
> >
> > evdev:input:b0003v18D1p8001*
> > KEYBOARD_KEY_b002f=reserved
>
> No, that is exactly what I had in mind, thank you. Please submit this
> entry to upstream systemd/udev project (and we can cherry-pick it into
> our udev as well).
The pull request is here: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/23372

>
> In general I think we should try to avoid trivial "fixup" HID drivers if
> it is possible. I also wondered if we could be supplying fixed-up HID
> descriptors via request_firmware() for HID devices.

Pablo