HID: apple: fix key translations where multiple quirks attempt to translate the same key
The hid-apple driver does not support chaining translations or dependencies on other translations. This creates two problems: 1 - In Non-English keyboards of Macs, KEY_102ND and KEY_GRAVE are swapped and the APPLE_ISO_TILDE_QUIRK is used to work around this problem. The quirk is not set for the Macs where these bugs happen yet (see the 2nd patch for that), but this can be forced by setting the iso_layout parameter. Unfortunately, this only partially works. KEY_102ND gets translated to KEY_GRAVE, but KEY_GRAVE does not get translated to KEY_102ND, so both of them end up functioning as KEY_GRAVE. This is because the driver translates the keys as if Fn was pressed and the original is sent if it is not pressed, without any further translations happening on the key[#463]. KEY_GRAVE is present at macbookpro_no_esc_fn_keys[#195], so this is what happens: - KEY_GRAVE -> KEY_ESC (as if Fn is pressed) - KEY_GRAVE is returned (Fn isn't pressed, so translation is discarded) - KEY_GRAVE -> KEY_102ND (this part is not reached!) ... 2 - In case the touchbar does not work, the driver supports sending Escape when Fn+KEY_GRAVE is pressed. As mentioned previously, KEY_102ND is actually KEY_GRAVE and needs to be translated before this happens. Normally, these are the steps that should happen: - KEY_102ND -> KEY_GRAVE - KEY_GRAVE -> KEY_ESC (Fn is pressed) - KEY_ESC is returned Though this is what happens instead, as dependencies on other translations are not supported: - KEY_102ND -> KEY_ESC (Fn is pressed) - KEY_ESC is returned This patch fixes both bugs by ordering the translations correctly and by making the translations continue and not return immediately after translating a key so that chained translations work and translations can depend on other ones. This patch also simplifies the implementation of the swap_fn_leftctrl option a little bit, as it makes it simply use a normal translation instead adding extra code to translate a key to KEY_FN[#381]. This change wasn't put in another patch as the code that translates the Fn key needs to be changed because of the changes in the patch, and those changes would be discarded with the next patch anyway (the part that originally translates KEY_FN to KEY_LEFTCTRL needs to be made an else-if branch of the part that transltes KEY_LEFTCTRL to KEY_FN). Note: Line numbers (#XYZ) are for drivers/hid/hid-apple.c at commit 20afcc46 ("HID: apple: Add "GANSS" to the non-Apple list"). Note: These bugs are only present on Macs with a keyboard with no dedicated escape key and a non-English layout. Signed-off-by: Kerem Karabay <kekrby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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