SW_TABLET_MODE missing (hp-wmi) with kernel 5.17.5

Hi,
I have a HP ENVY x360 15-eu077ng convertible laptop and the tablet mode seems not to be working. I downloaded the latest release of the linux kernel (5.17.5) compiled and installed it manually. Because I hoped that the git kernel commit 520ee4ea1cc60251a6e3c911cf0336278aa52634 would fix my issue. (I would post the link but for some reason I can’t do that).
when I run sudo evtest /dev/input/eventX (X the current number for the hp wmi hotkeys) I get the following result:

Select the device event number [0-18]: 5
Input driver version is 1.0.1
Input device ID: bus 0x19 vendor 0x0 product 0x0 version 0x0
Input device name: "HP WMI hotkeys"
Supported events:
  Event type 0 (EV_SYN)
  Event type 1 (EV_KEY)
    Event code 138 (KEY_HELP)
    Event code 141 (KEY_SETUP)
    Event code 148 (KEY_PROG1)
    Event code 153 (KEY_DIRECTION)
    Event code 224 (KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN)
    Event code 225 (KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP)
    Event code 226 (KEY_MEDIA)
    Event code 240 (KEY_UNKNOWN)
    Event code 358 (KEY_INFO)
  Event type 4 (EV_MSC)
    Event code 4 (MSC_SCAN)
  Event type 5 (EV_SW)
    Event code 5 (SW_DOCK) state 0
Properties:
Testing ... (interrupt to exit)

when I fold the device no ouput is being produced and when I run sudo cat /dev/input/eventX there is also no output. Tablet mode works on windows so it’s likely a firmware issue?

I have also tried using several older kernels but they also didn’t work.
Any ideas would be greatly apprechiated

provide formated output from: inxi -Fazy

System:
  Kernel: 5.17.5-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.17-x86_64
    root=UUID=ce390bd9-c658-43ad-95ea-e3dd2d1137e3 rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Console: pty pts/1 wm: kwin_wayland DM: SDDM Distro: Manjaro Linux
    base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Convertible System: HP product: HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-eu0xxx
    v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: HP model: 888A v: 63.29 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.06
    date: 07/28/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 33.8 Wh (73.5%) condition: 46.0/46.0 Wh (100.0%)
    volts: 12.9 min: 11.6 model: 333-AC-3A-A BN03051XL type: Li-ion
    serial: <filter> status: charging cycles: 71
  Device-1: hid-0018:04F3:2CFD.0001-battery model: ELAN2514:00 04F3:2CFD
    serial: N/A charge: N/A status: N/A
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with Radeon Graphics socket: FP6 bits: 64
    type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 family: 0x17 (23) model-id: 0x68 (104) stepping: 1
    microcode: 0x8608103
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB
    desc: 2x4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1450 high: 1800 min/max: 1400/4370 boost: enabled
    base/boost: 1800/4350 scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: schedutil
    volts: 1.2 V ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 1400 2: 1400 3: 1400 4: 1400
    5: 1800 6: 1400 7: 1400 8: 1400 9: 1400 10: 1400 11: 1400 12: 1400
    13: 1400 14: 1400 15: 1800 16: 1400 bogomips: 57518
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Lucienne vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: amdgpu v: kernel
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164c
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Quanta HP Wide Vision HD Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 0408:542a class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.22.1.1 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.1
    compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :1 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x286mm (20.00x11.26")
    s-diag: 583mm (22.95")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: XWAYLAND0 model: AU Optronics 0xa08b built: 2019
    res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 143 gamma: 1.2 size: 340x190mm (13.39x7.48")
    diag: 394mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (DRM 3.44.0 5.17.5-MANJARO LLVM 13.0.1)
    v: 4.6 Mesa 21.3.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel alternate: snd_pci_acp3x,snd_pci_acp5x
    pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
    bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2 class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3
    class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.17.5-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.49 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2723 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-3:2
    chip-ID: 8087:0029 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.16 TiB used: 30.63 GiB (2.6%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Intel model: SSDPEKNW010T8H
    size: 953.87 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s
    lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: HPS1 temp: 25.9 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 26d 21h cycles: 613
    read-units: 4,095,562 [2.09 TB] written-units: 3,672,911 [1.88 TB]
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 type: USB vendor: Sabrent model: SABRENT
    drive vendor: Toshiba drive model: MK2561GSYN family: 2.5" HDD MK..61GSY[N]
    size: 232.89 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B sata: 2.6
    speed: 3.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
    drive serial: <filter> rev: 0204 drive rev: MH000C temp: 29 C scheme: GPT
  SMART: yes state: enabled health: PASSED cycles: 4366 Old-Age:
    g-sense error rate: 173
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 232.59 GiB size: 227.88 GiB (97.98%)
    used: 30.63 GiB (13.4%) fs: ext4 block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/sda2
    maj-min: 8:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
Swap:
  Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.0 C mobo: 30.0 C gpu: amdgpu temp: 36.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 355 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 363 Memory: 15.04 GiB
  used: 1.38 GiB (9.2%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.2.0 clang: 13.0.1 Packages: pacman: 1218 lib: 331 flatpak: 0
  Shell: Zsh (sudo) v: 5.8.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.16 running-in: yakuake
  inxi: 3.3.15

ok the isseu was fixed in kernel 5.18

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