[Bug 2105957] Re: [SRU] Add micmute key for Dell Pro Max series

[Chris Halse Rogers]

Between this and 2103967 the hwdb approach the approach with the most
limited range of problems, targeting only specific hardware, at the cost
of possibly needing further updates when *new* hardware exists.

Hm. But by my understanding of the input stack, *this* will result in
both Wayland and Xorg sessions seeing the extra key as F20, which is a
change of behaviour for Wayland sessions which would currently see
KEY_MICMUTE and which users could have configured bindings for?

So perhaps 2103967 is the conservative approach - it only applies to
Xorg, where no-one can be using KEY_MICMUTE as it has a keycode greater
than (255 - 8), and I *think* anyone who has remapped it with a hwdb
entry will be unaffected by the x-x-i-libinput patch (as it will already
have been remapped before hitting the codepath in the patch).

Does that sound right to everyone else?

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Title:
  [SRU] Add micmute key for Dell Pro Max series

Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in systemd-hwe package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in systemd-hwe source package in Noble:
  Confirmed
Status in systemd-hwe source package in Oracular:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

   * This patch adds hwdb entries to map mic mute keycode to F20, so
  that the key is usable in Xorg.

  [ Test Plan ]

   * On targeted unit, under Xorg, test that mic mute does not work

   * Update the package to -proposed and restart desktop, test the same
  key, the mic mute key should work to mute the microphone.

  [ Where problems could occur ]

   * Since the key is mapped to F20 (by convention in xkeyboard-config),
  if user redefine F20 for other purposes, it might not work as
  intended.

  [ Other Info ]

   * Do not update for plucky. In plucky, the keycode translation is
  done in xserver-xorg-input-libinput (see Bug #2103967), and wayland
  can take the micmute keycode as is.

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