On Sat, 29 Oct 2022, Roderick Colenbrander wrote: > Hi, > > Last year, we introduced hid-playstation as the start of a new driver > for officially supported PlayStation peripherals. The driver initially > only supported DualSense devices, but we promised to also bring support > for at least DualShock4 as well. > > This patch series adds DualShock4 support to hid-playstation. It should > be considered a brand new driver written from scratch in the same design > as hid-playstation. The driver is more documented and uses structures > instead of byte offsets with magical values. The driver should be more > clear and easier to follow. A few little sections of code cary over, which > Sony contributed before for sensor calibration or dongle support. > > Functionality wise the driver is equivalent to hid-sony. The only subtle > change is in the naming of the lightbar LEDs. Previously they used a naming > scheme like '<mac_address>:<color>", which doesn't follow the LED class standards. > The new scheme uses '<device_name>:<color>' (e.g. input10:red), which is more > compliant. Due to backwards compatibility in particular for Android, we couldn't > make it fully compliant. Nor were we able to use the new multicolor LED class. > > Aside from the LED code, the other features behave the same way. The hid-tools > tests all pass as well. One small change is that we use a different HID report > 0x12 to get the MAC address in USB mode. This report is the official one even > though other ones can get the info too, but e.g. clone devices don't tend to > support it. Hi Roderick, this is now queued in hid.git#for-6.2/sony. Thanks for all the work on this, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
