Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add nokbdwakeup quirk and enable it for MSI Claw

[Matthew Schwartz]

> On Jun 17, 2025, at 1:50 PM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Matthew,
> 
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 10:19:28PM -0700, Matthew Schwartz wrote:
>> This patch series aims to solve an issue on the MSI Claw, a series of
>> handheld gaming PCs, where their volume buttons will wake the system out
>> of s2idle because they are registered via an i8042 keyboard device. This
>> is not expected behavior on a handheld device that lacks an actual
>> keyboard, as it is very easy to press the volume buttons while handling
>> the device in its suspended state. 
>> 
>> To solve this, introduce a new quirk based on DMI match that will disable
>> the wakeup property of an i8042 keyboard device and enable it for current
>> MSI Claw models.
> 
> Why does this need to be done in kernel instead of having a udev rule
> to toggle this through sysfs:
> 
> /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/power/wakeup
> 
> Thanks.

Yes this would work, but it would also mean relying on individual distros to discover such a udev rule is necessary and figure out how to ship this as a device specific workaround within userspace such that it won’t apply to other devices that do want to maintain i8042 keyboard wakeup functionality. I will investigate implementing this via udev in some sort of packaged fashion, but a kernel quirk seemed like the better option here in my opinion, especially because a quirk system is already in place for i8042 within the kernel.

> 
> -- 
> Dmitry