Re: [PATCH 1/2] HID: Use multitouch driver for Type Covers

[Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki.4i@stu.hosei.ac.jp>]

> The search, share, connect(?), and settings keys
I tested the patch again with xev and found that those "charm" keys
don't respond both on hid-microsoft and hid-multitouch, while other
keys respond. I'll have a further look.

Anyway, keys working with hid-microsoft also work with hid-multitouch,
so It's ready for merging, I think.

On 12/15/2015 01:39 AM, Donavan Lance wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:22 AM, Bastien Nocera
> <hadess@hadess.net>
wrote:
>> On Mon, 2015-12-14 at 21:50 +0900, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
>>> Use multitouch driver instead of microsoft one for Microsoft
>>> Surface Type Covers.
>>> 
>>> By using MT_CLS_EXPORT_ALL_INPUTS, the keyboards function as
>>> well as the multitouch pads do.
>> 
>> I've discussed this a couple of weeks back with Benjamin
>> Tissoires, and this patch would break the special keys (mute,
>> brightness up/down, keyboard backlight up/down and play/pause).
>> 
>> The recommended way to fix this was to move multi-touch
>> processing into the Microsoft driver, so that it would handle the
>> trackpad's multi- touch events.
>> 
>> You should be able to do this by carefully picking up the
>> handling code from hid-multitouch, or do something similar to
>> what's done in hid- wacom, which has the same problem as the Type
>> Cover handling.
>> 
>> Can you confirm that this does indeed break those special keys?
>> If it does, it's a NAK from my side.
> 
> For what it's worth the special keys on my keyboard work fine when 
> using this patch. I'm using a Surface Pro 3, Type Cover 3, running 
> GNOME and Fedora 23. The search, share, connect(?), and settings
> keys are the only ones not mapped to anything out of the box, but
> they are recognized by xev.
>