APPLIED: [SRU][Oracular][PATCH v2 0/1] hid-asus: use hid for brightness control on keyboard

Roxana Nicolescu roxana.nicolescu at canonical.com
Thu Nov 28 14:16:41 UTC 2024


On 20/11/2024 18:20, Mitchell Augustin wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2089113
>
> SRU Justification:
>
> [ Impact ]
>
> The brightness of some ASUS ROG laptop keyboards cannot be adjusted
> without this patch.
>
> [ Test Plan ]
>
> I verified that this patch applies cleanly to the Oracular kernel
> at Ubuntu-6.11.0-9.9 and resolves the bug on my laptop
> (Asus ROG GA503RM). I observed no regressions. This can be verified
> on any similar model of laptop by testing keyboard brightness controls
> once patched.
>
> [ Fix ]
>
> On almost all ASUS ROG series laptops the MCU used for the USB keyboard
> also has a HID packet used for setting the brightness. This is usually
> the same as the WMI method. But in some laptops the WMI method either
> is missing or doesn't work, so we should default to the HID control.
>
>
> [ Where problems could occur ]
>
> I do not expect any regressions since this only touches parts of
> asus-wmi and hid-asus that are covered by my test case, which worked
> as intended.
>
> [ Changes since v1 of this patch set ]
>
> Corrected patch format issues
>
> Luke D. Jones (1):
>    hid-asus: use hid for brightness control on keyboard
>
>   drivers/hid/hid-asus.c                     |  7 +++++
>   drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c            |  3 +-
>   include/linux/platform_data/x86/asus-wmi.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
Applied to oracular:linux master-next branch. Thanks!



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