ACK: [SRU][F/H/I/J][PATCH 0/2] Fix the keyboard issue on the Medion s17 series laptops

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Fri Nov 12 12:50:15 UTC 2021


Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

On 11/10/21 7:47 PM, Hui Wang wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1950536
> 
> The 0001-xxxx.patch is only needed for Jammy kernel, other kernels
> already merged this patch with bug #1909814.
> 
> [Impact]
> The keyboard of some medion s17 series laptops can't work under Linux.
> 
> [Fix]
> Backport a upstream patch, after applying the patch, the keyboard
> will skip the irq override from the acpi resource layer, and the
> keyboard could work normally.
> 
> [Test]
> Booting the patched kernel, use the keyboard to do the input.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> The patch will skip the irq override based on the DMI info, so
> if a medion laptop which has the same DMI info and the irq 1
> needs to be overriden, this patch will introduce regression on
> the machine, but this possibility is very low. If this happens,
> we will consider to add more DMI match info in the table.
> 
> Hui Wang (2):
>    ACPI: resources: Add DMI-based legacy IRQ override quirk
>    ACPI: resources: Add one more Medion model in IRQ override quirk
> 
>   drivers/acpi/resource.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 

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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc



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