Bug 622902

Summary:	genpatches Please add patch to hid-apple.c (attached)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pavel Kozlov <pkozlov.vrn>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	jlec, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	hid-apple.patch Patch updated for Kernel 5.8.x

Description Pavel Kozlov 2017-06-28 09:25:25 UTC

Created attachment 478268 [details, diff]
hid-apple.patch

From here https://github.com/free5lot/hid-apple-patched

A patched version of hid-apple allows GNU/Linux user to swap the FN and left Control keys and some other mapping tweaks on Macbook Pro, external Apple keyboards and probably other Apple devices.

It adds few options to kernel module hid_apple: swap_fn_leftctrl, rightalt_as_rightctrl, ejectcd_as_delete, which are disabled by default.

Very useful for people who used to use windows keyboard for a long time and don't like macbook keyboard.

Comment 1 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2017-07-01 17:39:58 UTC

Hi Pavel

I am using the genpatches. So if at all, we need to include it there.

I will CC the maintainer. Please discuss this with them.

Comment 2 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2017-07-02 17:20:52 UTC

This is tee'ed up for 4.12, which according to Linus, we might see today.

commit 593358522f8e378eb4cc0e20efa2e57d6669adfd (HEAD -> 4.12, origin/4.12)
Author: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org>
Date:   Sun Jul 2 13:20:10 2017 -0400

    hid-apple patch to enable swapping of the FN and left Control keys and some additional on some apple keyboards. See bug #622902

Comment 3 Pavel Kozlov 2017-07-02 18:21:00 UTC

Awesome! Thank you!

Comment 4 Jorge Millán 2020-08-20 23:26:59 UTC

Created attachment 655834 [details, diff]
Patch updated for Kernel 5.8.x

Updated patch, from the updated remote repo (https://github.com/free5lot/hid-apple-patched/pull/70) to use the 5.8 branch.

Comment 5 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2021-02-16 12:58:23 UTC

This functionality is supported by upstream kernel