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    platform/surface: Add KIP/POS tablet-mode switch driver · 9f794056
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    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: default avatarMaximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624183642.910893-3-luzmaximilian@gmail.comReviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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