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Commit 73e7d63e authored by Benjamin Tissoires's avatar Benjamin Tissoires Committed by Jiri Kosina
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HID: multitouch: fix input mode switching on some Elan panels

as reported by https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108481



This bug reports mentions 6d4f5440 ("HID: multitouch: Fetch feature
reports on demand for Win8 devices") as the origin of the problem but this
commit actually masked 2 firmware bugs that are annihilating each other:

The report descriptor declares two features in reports 3 and 5:

0x05, 0x0d,                    // Usage Page (Digitizers)             318
0x09, 0x0e,                    // Usage (Device Configuration)        320
0xa1, 0x01,                    // Collection (Application)            322
0x85, 0x03,                    //  Report ID (3)                      324
0x09, 0x22,                    //  Usage (Finger)                     326
0xa1, 0x00,                    //  Collection (Physical)              328
0x09, 0x52,                    //   Usage (Inputmode)                 330
0x15, 0x00,                    //   Logical Minimum (0)               332
0x25, 0x0a,                    //   Logical Maximum (10)              334
0x75, 0x08,                    //   Report Size (8)                   336
0x95, 0x02,                    //   Report Count (2)                  338
0xb1, 0x02,                    //   Feature (Data,Var,Abs)            340
0xc0,                          //  End Collection                     342
0x09, 0x22,                    //  Usage (Finger)                     343
0xa1, 0x00,                    //  Collection (Physical)              345
0x85, 0x05,                    //   Report ID (5)                     347
0x09, 0x57,                    //   Usage (Surface Switch)            349
0x09, 0x58,                    //   Usage (Button Switch)             351
0x15, 0x00,                    //   Logical Minimum (0)               353
0x75, 0x01,                    //   Report Size (1)                   355
0x95, 0x02,                    //   Report Count (2)                  357
0x25, 0x03,                    //   Logical Maximum (3)               359
0xb1, 0x02,                    //   Feature (Data,Var,Abs)            361
0x95, 0x0e,                    //   Report Count (14)                 363
0xb1, 0x03,                    //   Feature (Cnst,Var,Abs)            365
0xc0,                          //  End Collection                     367

The report ID 3 presents 2 input mode features, while only the first one
is handled by the device. Given that we did not checked if one was
previously assigned, we were dealing with the ignored featured and we
should never have been able to switch this panel into the multitouch mode.

However, the firmware presents an other bugs which allowed 6d4f5440
to counteract the faulty report descriptor. When we request the values
of the feature 5, the firmware answers "03 03 00". The fields are correct
but the report id is wrong. Before 6d4f5440, we retrieved all the features
and injected them in the system. So when we called report 5, we injected
in the system the report 3 with the values "03 00".
Setting the second input mode to 03 in this report changed it to "03 03"
and the touchpad switched to the mt mode. We could have set anything
in the second field because the actual value (the first 03 in this report)
was given by the query of report ID 5.

To sum up: 2 bugs in the firmware were hiding that we were accessing the
wrong feature.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent 25a84db1
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