Re: [PATCH] macintosh: move mac_hid driver to input/mouse.

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 03:18:42PM +0200, Michal SuchÃnek wrote:
>> This is what evtest reports about my keyboard:
>>
>> Select the device event number [0-12]: 2
>> Input driver version is 1.0.1
>> Input device ID: bus 0x3 vendor 0x413c product 0x2107 version 0x111
>> Input device name: "DELL Dell USB Entry Keyboard"
>> Supported events:
>>   Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
>>   Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
>>     Event code 1 (KEY_ESC)
>>     Event code 2 (KEY_1)
>>     Event code 3 (KEY_2)
>>     Event code 4 (KEY_3)
>> ...
>>     Event code 193 (KEY_F23)
>>     Event code 194 (KEY_F24)
>>     Event code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN)
>>     Event code 272 (BTN_LEFT)
>>     Event code 273 (BTN_RIGHT)
>>     Event code 274 (BTN_MIDDLE)
>>   Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
>>     Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
>>   Event type 17 (EV_LED)
>>     Event code 0 (LED_NUML) state 1
>>     Event code 1 (LED_CAPSL) state 0
>>     Event code 2 (LED_SCROLLL) state 0
>>     Event code 3 (LED_COMPOSE) state 0
>>     Event code 4 (LED_KANA) state 0
>> Key repeat handling:
>>   Repeat type 20 (EV_REP)
>>     Repeat code 0 (REP_DELAY)
>>       Value    250
>>     Repeat code 1 (REP_PERIOD)
>>       Value     33
>> Properties:
>
> looks like it's not tagged as ID_INPUT_MOUSE by the default udev rules
> because for that we need x/y axes (either relative for real mice or absolute
> ones for the VMWare USB mouse). This keyboard only has buttons though. So it
> gets ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD for the keys, but no ID_INPUT_MOUSE.
>
> Google isn't overly forthcoming on "DELL Dell USB Entry Keyboard" but the
> few pictures I can find all point to a keyboard that doesn't have any
> physical mouse buttons at all. Does yours have buttons? Can you post a
> picture of it somewhere?
>

Michal is using udev/hwdb to replace some of the keys on his keyboard
to generate BTN_RIGHT/BTN_MIDDLE trying to achive the same end result
as with mac_hid. It is not the default keyboard behavior. Having
another custom udev rule to mark the device as ID_INPUT_MOUSE is a
fair requirement in this case I think.

-- 
Dmitry