Re: [PATCH] HID: apple: Reset quirks when Fn key is not found

[Hilton Chain <hako@ultrarare.space>]

On Mon, 30 May 2022 08:18:12 +0200 José Expósito wrote:
> That could be problematic because Apple keyboards can be renamed after
> connecting them to a Mac.
>
> For example, the name of my keyboard is: "José Expósito’s Keyboard".

Well, editable name. I have a bad feeling about this...

> I think it'd be safer to assume that the device is an Apple keyboard
> and create exceptions for know non-Apple keyboards  because the
> majority of the devices handled by this driver are Apple keyboards and
> because there is already a config option available (real_fnmode) to fix
> the problematic devices in the meanwhile.
>
> In my opinion, creating a function like "apple_is_non_apple_keyboard"
> (or similar) containing all the rules to identify devices from
> Keychron, GANSS, etc could do the trick. Something similar to:
>
>   if (apple_is_non_apple_keyboard(hdev)) {
>           hid_info(hdev, "Non-apple keyboard detected; function keys will default to fnmode=2 behavior\n");
>           asc->quirks |= APPLE_IS_NON_APPLE;
>   }

Done. However I couldn't figure out corresponding names from other known
bug reports, so that the initial array only contains two devices.

> Unfortunately, I can't think of a generic way to detect those devices
> as they have the same vendor and product as the Apple ones :S

T^T

Stay boiled,
Chain