{"id":221275,"date":"2026-03-08T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/linux-7-0-fixes-battery-reporting-for-the-apple-magic-trackpad-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T15:50:08","slug":"linux-7-0-fixes-battery-reporting-for-the-apple-magic-trackpad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/linux-7-0-fixes-battery-reporting-for-the-apple-magic-trackpad-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-Fix-Magic-Trackpad-2\">Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-Fix-Magic-Trackpad-2\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-Fix-Magic-Trackpad-2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-08 06:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merged back in 2018 for Linux 5.0 was support for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. Merged this week for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel is fixing battery reporting for those using the Magic Trackpad 2 under Linux.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s HID fixes pull for Linux 7.0-rc3 contains just a few fixes. There are some memory leak fixes in some of the C code, potential kernel crashes in some of the drivers, and also fixing a potential null pointer dereference too. For end users what&#8217;s likely most notable is fixing battery reporting for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=magic_trackpad_2_med\" alt=\"Apple Magic Trackpad 2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It was recently discovered that battery reporting is not working for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 if it is connected via USB. Due to an incorrect HID descriptor check for its length, a necessary fix was not being applied. But now with a one line change to the hid-magicmouse driver, the battery reporting is now working correctly for the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 USB.<\/p>\n<p>The HID fixes were merged ahead of Linux 7.0-rc3 due out later today. The small fix will likely be back-ported to current Linux stable kernel versions in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-Fix-Magic-Trackpad-2\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 7.0 Fixes Battery Reporting For The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/Linux-7.0-Fix-Magic-Trackpad-2 Publish Date: 2026-03-08&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=magic_trackpad_2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-221275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221277,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221275\/revisions\/221277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}