On 1/16/26 14:31, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:
> Some ROG devices have a new dynamic backlight interface for control by
> Windows. This interface does not create an ->input device, causing the
> kernel to print an error message and to eject it. In addition, ROG
> devices have proper HID names in their descriptors so renaming them is
> not necessary.
>
> Therefore, if a device is identified as ROG, early return from probe to
> skip renaming and ->input checks.
Reviewed-by: Denis Benato <benato.denis96@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
> ---
> drivers/hid/hid-asus.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c b/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
> index 428481aa2083..90dc1fcd54ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
> @@ -1232,6 +1232,13 @@ static int asus_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
> asus_kbd_register_leds(hdev))
> hid_warn(hdev, "Failed to initialize backlight.\n");
>
> + /*
> + * For ROG keyboards, skip rename for consistency and ->input check as
> + * some devices do not have inputs.
> + */
> + if (drvdata->quirks & QUIRK_ROG_NKEY_KEYBOARD)
> + return 0;
> +
> /*
> * Check that input registration succeeded. Checking that
> * HID_CLAIMED_INPUT is set prevents a UAF when all input devices