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| author | Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> | 2022-06-24 20:36:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> | 2022-07-02 11:11:21 +0200 |
| commit | 9f794056db5bb1e1add83ed553b6aec57298358c (patch) | |
| tree | b1ed18b4a29b69391f921345096be528274a0c02 /MAINTAINERS | |
| parent | eb003bf3ba221bb3d21d1fdcddaa36c158fd2d8f (diff) | |
| download | linux-9f794056db5bb1e1add83ed553b6aec57298358c.tar.bz2 | |
platform/surface: Add KIP/POS tablet-mode switch driver
Add a driver providing a tablet-mode switch input device for Microsoft
Surface devices using the Surface Aggregator KIP subsystem (to manage
detachable peripherals) or POS subsystem (to obtain device posture
information).
The KIP (full name unknown, abbreviation found through reverse
engineering) subsystem is used on the Surface Pro 8 and Surface Pro X to
manage the keyboard cover. Among other things, it provides information
on the positioning (posture) of the cover (closed, laptop-style,
detached, folded-back, ...), which can be used to implement an input
device providing the SW_TABLET_MODE event. Similarly, the POS (posture
information) subsystem provides such information on the Surface Laptop
Studio, with the difference being that the keyboard is not detachable.
As implementing the tablet-mode switch for both subsystems is largely
similar, the driver proposed in this commit, in large, acts as a generic
tablet mode switch driver framework for the Surface Aggregator Module.
Specific implementations using this framework are provided for the KIP
and POS subsystems, adding tablet-mode switch support to the
aforementioned devices.
A few more notes on the Surface Laptop Studio:
A peculiarity of the Surface Laptop Studio is its "slate/tent" mode
(symbolized: user> _/\). In this mode, the screen covers the keyboard
but leaves the touchpad exposed. This is essentially a mode in-between
tablet and laptop, and it is debatable whether tablet-mode should be
enabled in this mode. We therefore let the user decide this via a module
parameter.
In particular, tablet-mode may bring up the on-screen touch keyboard
more easily, which would be desirable in this mode. However, some
user-space software currently also decides to disable keyboard and, more
importantly, touchpad input, while the touchpad is still accessible in
the "slate/tent" mode. Furthermore, this mode shares its identifier with
"slate/flipped" mode where the screen is flipped 180° and the keyboard
points away from the user (symbolized: user> /_). In this mode we would
like to enable auto-rotation, something that user-space software may
only do when tablet-mode is enabled. We therefore default to the
slate-mode enabling the tablet-mode switch.
Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624183642.910893-3-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'MAINTAINERS')
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diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 2a34deb24594..c6d8c0c6bf6e 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -13176,6 +13176,12 @@ F: drivers/scsi/smartpqi/smartpqi*.[ch] F: include/linux/cciss*.h F: include/uapi/linux/cciss*.h +MICROSOFT SURFACE AGGREGATOR TABLET-MODE SWITCH +M: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> +L: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org +S: Maintained +F: drivers/platform/surface/surface_aggregator_tablet_switch.c + MICROSOFT SURFACE BATTERY AND AC DRIVERS M: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> L: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org |