Comment 61 for bug 281993

Just FYI, this should be fixed in some next kernel version. I've emailed Jiri Kosina who is the maintainer of this driver and it he did a very nice job fixing this!

Here's the patch for those interested:

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
index d718b16..890b1b2 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #define MS_NOGET 0x10

 /*
- * Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver (Model 1028) has several
+ * Microsoft Wireless Desktop Receiver (Model 1028) several
  * 'Usage Min/Max' where it ought to have 'Physical Min/Max'
  */
 static void ms_report_fixup(struct hid_device *hdev, __u8 *rdesc,
@@ -38,17 +38,12 @@ static void ms_report_fixup(struct hid_device *hdev, __u8 *rdesc,
 {
  unsigned long quirks = (unsigned long)hid_get_drvdata(hdev);

- if ((quirks & MS_RDESC) && rsize == 571 && rdesc[284] == 0x19 &&
- rdesc[286] == 0x2a && rdesc[304] == 0x19 &&
- rdesc[306] == 0x29 && rdesc[352] == 0x1a &&
- rdesc[355] == 0x2a && rdesc[557] == 0x19 &&
+ if ((quirks & MS_RDESC) && rsize == 571 && rdesc[557] == 0x19 &&
    rdesc[559] == 0x29) {
   dev_info(&hdev->dev, "fixing up Microsoft Wireless Receiver "
     "Model 1028 report descriptor\n");
- rdesc[284] = rdesc[304] = rdesc[557] = 0x35;
- rdesc[352] = 0x36;
- rdesc[286] = rdesc[355] = 0x46;
- rdesc[306] = rdesc[559] = 0x45;
+ rdesc[557] = 0x35;
+ rdesc[559] = 0x45;
  }
 }