The TODO says we were supposed to do that in 2019–2020 (if I interpreted the
enigmatic notation correctly). The comment in hwdb said:
> DO NOT USE THIS PROPERTY. This property is kept for backwards
> compatibility. The only known consumer, libinput, stopped reading this
> property in version 1.9.0. No new entries for this property should be
> added.
… and we're currently on libinput-1.23.0.
Most likely there are no users, and even if they are, they'll just get a
slightly misbehaving pointingstick, which shouldn't be too bad.
We've had this text since the beginning, but in fact the patterns must be
stable in order for people to create local hwdb entries. And we support that
and can't change the match patterns without being very careful. So let's just
drop the text.
This reverts commit c0443b97b7.
I got various cases wrong:
"usb:v04F3p2B7Cd5912dc00dsc00dp00ic03isc00ip00in00"
"usb:v0627p0001:QEMU USB Tablet"
"input:b0003v0627p0001e0001-e0,1,2,4,k110,111,112,r0,1,8,B,am4,lsfw"
OTOH:
-evdev:name:ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad:dmi:*svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN53SV:*
+evdev:name:ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad:dmi:*svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN53SV*
is OK. Other parts follow after 'pn'.
-mouse:*:name:*Trackball*:*
-mouse:*:name:*trackball*:*
-mouse:*:name:*TrackBall*:*
+mouse:*:name:*Trackball*:
+mouse:*:name:*trackball*:
+mouse:*:name:*TrackBall*:
... and anything else with :name should be OK too, because our imports always
include ":" at the end:
IMPORT{builtin}="hwdb 'joystick:$env{ID_BUS}:v$attr{id/vendor}p$attr{id/product}:name:$attr{name}:'"
Including '*' at the end makes the pattern work even if we decide to add
something to the match string later.
Fixes#17499.
No functional change is intended.
The general pattern of changes:
-usb:v04F3p2B7C*
+usb:v04F3p2B7C:*
This is mostly a clarification, to make the part that makes the usb vXXXXpYYYY
part visually separated. It would only make a difference if we added further
keys with a different number of digits, which is unlikely.
-usb:v0627p0001:*QEMU USB Keyboard*
-usb:v0627p0001:*QEMU USB Mouse*
-usb:v0627p0001:*QEMU USB Tablet*
+usb:v0627p0001:*QEMU USB Keyboard*:*
+usb:v0627p0001:*QEMU USB Mouse*:*
+usb:v0627p0001:*QEMU USB Tablet*:*
Again, only a clarification. We know that ":" will appear somewhere later in
the match key, so anything that matches "…Keyboard*" will also match "…Keyboard*:*".
-evdev:name:ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad:dmi:*svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN53SV*
+evdev:name:ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad:dmi:*svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnN53SV:*
This makes the match narrower. Previously we would match product "N53SV"
and "N53SV2", "N53SV3", and others. Here we are saying that the ':pn' part must
match exactly. Most of the changes in this patch match this pattern. I made a few
judgement calls and used "pn…*:*" when I wasn't sure if the full pn is included:
-evdev:name:Dell WMI hotkeys:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnDell*:pnPrecision*
+evdev:name:Dell WMI hotkeys:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnDell*:pnPrecision*:*
-evdev:name:Cypress APA Trackpad ?cyapa?:dmi:*:svnHewlett-Packard*:pnFalco*:
+evdev:name:Cypress APA Trackpad ?cyapa?:dmi:*:svnHewlett-Packard*:pnFalco*:*
This more like the "QEMU" example above, since all dmi strings end in ":", so
anything which matches the old version will also match the new version.
-evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnGateway*:pnA0A1*:pvr*
+evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnGateway*:pnA0A1*:*
I replaced trailing ":pvr*" by ":*". This makes no functional difference because
we expect "pvr" to always appear in the dmi string. This makes patterns shorter.
-evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnAcer*:pn*
+evdev:atkbd:dmi:bvn*:bvr*:bd*:svnAcer*:pn*:*
OTOH, ":pn*" is kept. This is because almost patterns include ":pn*", and if we
skip it, we should make it clear that this is on purpose, that we really want to
match any product name.
The python script to generate autosuspend rules is updated to use ":*" too.
Inspired by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/17281#discussion_r501489750.
