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surface pro 3: Add support driver for Surface Pro 3 buttons
authorChen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:30:25 +0000 (23:30 +0800)
committerDarren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:21:27 +0000 (00:21 -0700)
commit2508a45a924dfa4a5f6e60675aa4732d888134a7
tree94cf10510ec0c70de7b42fea8d0fd2ab0ecc8f2f
parentfc0bfacd045a17e385b4272dfe2387ba3a6d8745
surface pro 3: Add support driver for Surface Pro 3 buttons

Since Surface Pro 3 does not follow the specs of "Windows ACPI Design
Guide for SoC Platform", code in drivers/input/misc/soc_array.c can
not detect these buttons on it. According to bios implementation,
Surface Pro 3 encapsulates these buttons in a device named "VGBI",
with _HID "MSHW0028". When any of the buttons is pressed, a specify
ACPI notification code for this button will be delivered to "VGBI". For
example, if power button is pressed down, ACPI notification code of 0xc6
will be sent by Notify(VGBI, 0xc6).

This patch leverages "VGBI" to distinguish different ACPI notification
code from Power button, Home button, Volume button, then dispatches these
code to input layer. Lid is already covered by acpi button driver, so
there's no need to rewrite.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84651
Tested-by: Ethan Schoonover <es@ethanschoonover.com>
Tested-by: Peter Amidon <psa.pub.0@picnicpark.org>
Tested-by: Donavan Lance <tusklahoma@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Just <stephenjust@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
[dvhart@linux.intel.com: Formatting corrections in MAINTAINERS and Intel (c)]
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
MAINTAINERS
drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
drivers/platform/x86/Makefile
drivers/platform/x86/surfacepro3_button.c [new file with mode: 0644]