I found out that the system believed that keyguard was on and was
filtering the KeyEvent.Home out.

On Dec 12, 9:51 pm, Alex  Feinman <alexfein...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a keyless device I need to generate certain keyboard events from a
> touch driver in response to gestures. I register the input device as
> capable of generating key input:
>         input_dev->evbit[0] = BIT_MASK(EV_KEY) | BIT_MASK(EV_ABS);
>         input_dev->keybit[BIT_WORD(BTN_TOUCH)] = BIT_MASK(BTN_TOUCH);
>         __set_bit(KEY_HOME,    input_dev->keybit);
>         __set_bit(KEY_BACK,    input_dev->keybit);
>         __set_bit(KEY_MENU,    input_dev->keybit);
>
> Then I send the input:
> input_report_key(input, key, 1);
> input_report_key(input, key, 0);
>
> When the key is KEY_BACK or KEY_MENU, everything works as expected.
> When the key is KEY_HOME, it is simply ignored.
>
> evtest shows that the HOME key is indeed generated:
> evtest /dev/input/event0
>
> Event: time 1033.103251, type 1 (Key), code 102 (Home), value 1
> Event: time 1033.103350, type 1 (Key), code 102 (Home), value 0
> Event: time 1033.103399, -------------- Report Sync ------------
>
> What am I missing?

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