Re: [PATCH] HID: lenovo: Add middleclick_workaround sysfs knob for cptkbd

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Tue Jan 23 2024 - 05:56:08 EST


On Sat, 23 Dec 2023, Mikhail Khvainitski wrote:

> Previous attempt to autodetect well-behaving patched firmware
> introduced in commit 46a0a2c96f0f ("HID: lenovo: Detect quirk-free fw
> on cptkbd and stop applying workaround") has shown that there are
> false-positives on original firmware (on both 1st gen and 2nd gen
> keyboards) which causes the middle button click workaround to be
> mistakenly disabled.
>
> This commit adds explicit parameter to sysfs to control this
> workaround.
>
> Fixes: 46a0a2c96f0f ("HID: lenovo: Detect quirk-free fw on cptkbd and stop applying workaround")
> Fixes: 43527a0094c1 ("HID: lenovo: Restrict detection of patched firmware only to USB cptkbd")
> Signed-off-by: Mikhail Khvainitski <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I am not a huge fan of sysctl device-specific knobs like this, but I guess
this is the best we can get here, unfortunately.

Now applied, thanks a lot.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs