[systemd-devel] [WIP PATCH 0/4] Rework the unreliable LID switch exported by ACPI

[Zheng, Lv]

Hi,

> From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess at hadess.net]
> Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [WIP PATCH 0/4] Rework the unreliable LID switch exported by ACPI
> 
> On Tue, 2017-06-20 at 02:45 +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > From: Bastien Nocera [mailto:hadess at hadess.net]
> > > Subject: Re: [systemd-devel] [WIP PATCH 0/4] Rework the unreliable
> > > LID switch exported by ACPI
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2017-06-19 at 01:43 +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote:
> > > > <snip>
> > > > >
> > > > > If you implement it in such a way that GNOME settings daemon
> > > > > behaves weirdly, you'll get my revert
> > > > > request in the mail. Do. Not. Ever. Lie.
> > > >
> > > > First, I don't know what should be reverted...
> > > > I have 2 solutions here for review, and Benjamin has 1.
> > > > And none of them has been upstreamed.
> > > > We are just discussing.
> > >
> > > The discussion is getting tiring quite frankly. We've been over
> > > this
> > > for nearly a year now, and with no end in sight.
> >
> > We have concerns to introduce too complicated logics to such a
> > simple button driver especially the logics are related to platform
> > firmware, input ABI and user space behaviors.
> >
> > I understand the situation.
> > Anyway this shouldn't be a big deal.
> > Let's prepare a smarter series to collect all fixes and solutions
> > with runtime configurables and get that to the end users.
> > So that we can figure out which is the simplest solution.
> >
> > But before that, let me ask several questions about gnome-setting-
> > deamon.
> >
> > >
> > > > However we need to get 1 of them upstreamed in next cycle.
> > > >
> > > > I think users won't startup gnome-setting-daemon right after
> > > > resume.
> > > > It should have already been started.
> > > >
> > > > There is only 1 platform may see delayed state update after
> > > > resume.
> > > > Let's see if there is a practical issue.
> > > > 1. Before suspend, the "lid state" is "close", and
> > > > 2. After resume, the state might remain "close" for a while
> > > >    Since libinput won't deliver close to userspace,
> > > >    and gnome-setting-daemon listens to key switches, there is no
> > > > wrong behavior.
> > >
> > > It doesn't. It listens to UPower, which tells user-space whether
> > > there
> > > is a lid switch, and whether it's opened or closed.
> >
> > Thanks for the information.
> > However I don't see differences here.
> >
> > >
> > > > 3. Then after several seconds, "open" arrives.
> > > >    gnome-setting-daemon re-arrange monitors and screen layouts in
> > > > response to the new event.
> > >
> > > Just how is anyone supposed to know that there is an event coming?
> >
> > Will UPower deliver EV_SW key events to gnome-setting-daemon?
> >
> > >
> > > > So there is no problem. IMO, there is no need to improve for
> > > > post-
> > > > resume case.
> > > >
> > > > Users will just startup gnome-setting-daemon once after boot.
> > > > And it's likely that when it is started, the state is correct.
> > >
> > > You cannot rely on when gnome-settings-daemon will be started to
> > > make
> > > *any* decision. Certainly not decisions on how the kernel should
> > > behave.
> >
> > My bad wording, I just meant:
> > When gnome-settings-daemon is started is not related to what we are
> > discussing.
> >
> > Do you want to fix regressions?
> > Or you want to fix new issues on recent platforms?
> > If you want to fix regressions, I think Benjamin has submitted a
> > revision
> > to use old method mode, there shouldn't be regressions for
> > gnome-settings-daemon.
> >
> > What else we want to do is to fix regressions related to systemd when
> > we go back to default method mode. Since there is no issue with
> > systemd
> > 233 and after just applying a small change, systemd 229 can also be
> > worked around, I mean dynamically add/remove input node is not
> > strictly
> > required for achieving our purposes.
> >
> > But if you want to fix new issues on new platforms, we can discuss
> > further and determine which program should be changed and which
> > program
> > is the best candidate to stop all problems - the ACPI button driver
> > or
> > the user space.
> 
> I'm happy with Benjamin's patches which don't introduce any
> dependencies on new user-space, and don't rely on undocumented
> heuristics. What was the API is still the API.

I've put them in the new series as you wish.

But what you say here is not the truth.
With Benjamin's patch, userspace still need to be changed to be able
to know an input node is dynamically created during runtime. So it
is still dependent on new user-space, and even newer than systemd
233.
It will be no difference by just asking:
1. systemd to not to rely on "open" events
   (which has already been fixed in 233).
2. desktop managers to not to rely on LID state to handle layouts.
   (which is what I'm asking to change).
If desktop managers still want to rely on LID state to handle layouts,
kernel drivers still need to be changed to periodically report _LID
state to input layer. And that's beyond what Benjamin's patches can
handle.

Thanks and best regards
Lv