Bug#946437: systemd-udevd: event4: Failed to call EVIOCSKEYCODE with scan code 0x70068, and key code 110: Invalid argument

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2020-01-26 01:48:06 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 00:31:29 +0100 Vincent Lefevre <vincent at vinc17.net>
> wrote:
> > Package: udev
> > Version: 244-3
> > Severity: minor
> > 
> > I've noticed the following error (in red) in the journalctl output:
> > 
> > Dec 09 00:10:18 zira systemd-udevd[506]: event4: Failed to call EVIOCSKEYCODE with scan code 0x70068, and key code 110: Invalid argument
> > 
> > This is not new.
> > 
> > I have a file /etc/udev/hwdb.d/98-apple-keyboard.hwdb with:
> > 
> > evdev:input:b0003v05ACp0221*
> >  KEYBOARD_KEY_70068=insert      # F13: Insert
> 
> So you get this error message because of some local configuration.
> Why is this a bug in the udev package then?

The error was reported by systemd-udevd. Do you mean that udev
just reports an error from the kernel? It is not clear whether
something needs to be changed in the configuration (but
/lib/udev/hwdb.d/60-keyboard.hwdb have something similar for
another device, so that may indicate at least something wrong
with this file) or there is something wrong with the kernel.
In the latter case, the bug could be reassigned to the kernel.
FYI, the issue is not new (I can see it in the beginning of
my log file, in January 2019) and it is still occurring with
linux-image-5.4.0-3-amd64 5.4.13-1.

Note that the configuration itself is working: with it, F13 gives
the Insert key as wanted. So, another possibility is that udev
does something unnecessary.

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