Re: [PATCH 0/2] HID: Corsair Scimitar Pro RGB gaming mouse driver and support for other Corsair devices

From: Oscar Campos
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 16:37:14 EST


On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 01:55:21PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Feb 2017, Oscar Campos wrote:
>
> > Since I have a Corsair Scimitar PRO RGB that does not works on Linux, I
> > tried to find a solution doing some research but was not able to find any.
> [ ... snip ... ]
> >
> > I created the new mouse driver instead of add code to the already existent
> > `hid-corsair.c` as it seem quite common to split mouse and keyboard driver
> > support.
>
> Hi Oscar,
>
> thanks a lot for the patch.
>
> Keeping the support in hid-corsair would be prefered. I think the only
> driver where we have the major kbd/mouse split is Holtek, which if I
> remember correctly was my fault not having catched this during review; it
> should probably eventually be unified.
>
> Otherwsie, we don't really distinguish the device type (the HID land is
> much wider than mice and keyboards anyway), but in most cases by the
> vendor.
>
> Could you please resubmit the patch so that it's actually adding changes
> to hid-corsair? Thanks!

I did send a [PATCH v2 2/2] that adds the changes to hid-corsair and
rollback any uneeded changes into the Kconfig and Makefile files. I also
added the vendor/product_id into the hid_have_special_driver[] array as
suggested.

>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>

Regards