Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] asus-wmi driver fails on my laptop

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 06.12.24 um 22:18 schrieb Yurii Strilets:

> Thank you very much for the fix!
> I am terribly sorry about a faulty report, I did just find out I had an issue during the mainline build.

There is nothing faulty about your report, the necessary fix is still not available in any stable kernels.
On the contrary i am happy that so many users are reporting this issue, because otherwise we would have
never heard of it :)

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

> Dec 6, 2024 20:15:05 Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>:
>
>> Am 06.12.24 um 14:33 schrieb Yura Strilets:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> After upgrading from 6.11 to 6.12 a bunch of Fn+Fx buttons(touchpad,
>>> mic, kb backlight, my asus) stopped working and the
>>> /sys/(...)/asus::kbd_backlight interface is missing, which,
>>> considering the dmesg, looks like an asus-wmi driver issue.
>>>
>>> I've been able to bisect the issue to the commit
>>> [b012170fed282151f7ba8988a347670c299f5ab3] "platform/x86: asus-wmi:
>>> Fix thermal profile initialization"
>>>
>>> Additionally, here's some maybe-helpful information:
>>> my laptop's model -- ASUS Zenbook UX3402VA
>>> linux distro -- Arch Linux
>>> .config for bisection -- was taken from /proc/config.gz at 6.12.1 arch
>>> kernel(attached in [1]) and missing options are default
>>> dmesg logs -- The "grep asus" parts of both good and bad scenarios can
>>> be seen below and full logs are at [2] and [3]
>>>
>>> == bad.log ==
>>> [    3.664546] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
>>> [    3.713358] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1
>>> [    3.714126] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x21
>>> [    3.714131] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: Detected ATK, not ASUSWMI, use
>>> DSTS
>>> [    3.757420] asus_wmi: Failed to set throttle thermal policy
>>> (retval): 0x0
>>> [    3.757425] asus_wmi: Failed to set default thermal profile
>>> [    3.757429] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: probe with driver asus-nb-wmi
>>> failed with error -5
>>> == end ==
>>>
>>> == good.log ==
>>> [    4.557898] asus_wmi: ASUS WMI generic driver loaded
>>> [    4.776587] asus_wmi: Initialization: 0x1
>>> [    4.777253] asus_wmi: SFUN value: 0x21
>>> [    4.777256] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: Detected ATK, not ASUSWMI, use
>>> DSTS
>>> [    4.777258] asus-nb-wmi asus-nb-wmi: Detected ATK, enable event queue
>>> [    4.805497] input: Asus WMI hotkeys as
>>> /devices/platform/asus-nb-wmi/input/input15
>>> == end ==
>>>
>>> [1] .config - https://pastebin.com/raw/3nDSV8Sm
>>> [2] bad.log - https://pastebin.com/raw/fvR5Sjzt
>>> [3] good.log - https://pastebin.com/raw/EazfLAWA
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Yurii
>>>
>> I am aware of this issue, the necessary fix (commit 25fb5f47f34d) was already submitted upstream and will likely
>> show up in the stable kernels soon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Armin Wolf