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authorHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2021-01-25 21:52:58 +0100
committerHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>2021-02-02 15:03:12 +0100
commit9e9c64131f47b0016911b76cebfcda6b1bb3b7b7 (patch)
tree5e2c77a23648cce245cba0bb075dc09fdfd3fb12
parent64b0efa18f8c3b1baac369b8d74d0fdae02bc4bc (diff)
platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Don't register keyboard_lang unnecessarily
All recent ThinkPad BIOS-es support the GSKL method used to query the keyboard-layout used by the ECFW for the SHIFT + other-key key-press emulation for special keys such as e.g. the '=', '(' and ')' keys above the numpad on 15" models. So just checking for the method is not a good indicator of the model supporting getting/setting the keyboard_lang. On models where this is not supported GSKL succeeds, but it returns METHOD_ERR in the returned integer to indicate that this is not supported on this model. Add a check for METHOD_ERR and return -ENODEV if it is set to avoid registering a non-working keyboard_lang sysfs-attr on models where this is not supported. Cc: Nitin Joshi <njoshi1@lenovo.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210125205258.135664-1-hdegoede@redhat.com
-rw-r--r--drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
index 81f8ad6bb688..4a1dba3099a6 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
@@ -10047,6 +10047,13 @@ static int get_keyboard_lang(int *output)
if (!acpi_evalf(gskl_handle, &kbd_lang, NULL, "dd", 0x02000000))
return -EIO;
+ /*
+ * METHOD_ERR gets returned on devices where there are no special (e.g. '=',
+ * '(' and ')') keys which use layout dependent key-press emulation.
+ */
+ if (kbd_lang & METHOD_ERR)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
*output = kbd_lang;
return 0;