Re: (hid-logitech) Support for non-DJ receivers

["Filipe Laíns" <filipe.lains@gmail.com>]

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On Wed, 2021-01-06 at 20:16 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi Filipe,
> 
> hid-logitech-dj already supports exposing devices behind a non-DJ / non-
> unifying
> receiver as separate HID child-devices of the receiver as we doe for DJ
> devices.
> 
> ATM hid-logitech-dj does not yet support the c541 PID receiver, but with some
> luck that could be as simple as adding this patch to the kernel:
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c b/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c
> index 1ffcfc9a1e03..ee7051f3c926 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.c
> @@ -1877,6 +1877,10 @@ static const struct hid_device_id logi_dj_receivers[] =
> {
>           HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_LOGITECH,
>                 USB_DEVICE_ID_LOGITECH_NANO_RECEIVER_LIGHTSPEED_1_1),
>          .driver_data = recvr_type_gaming_hidpp},
> +       { /* Logitech lightspeed receiver (0xc541) */
> +         HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_LOGITECH,
> +               0xc541),
> +        .driver_data = recvr_type_gaming_hidpp},
>         { /* Logitech 27 MHz HID++ 1.0 receiver (0xc513) */
>           HID_USB_DEVICE(USB_VENDOR_ID_LOGITECH,
> USB_DEVICE_ID_MX3000_RECEIVER),
>          .driver_data = recvr_type_27mhz},
> 
> Where the second 0xc541 should really be a
> USB_DEVICE_ID_LOGITECH_NANO_RECEIVER_LIGHTSPEED_1_2 define in hid-ids.h, but
> we
> can fix that when upstreaming this.
> 
> For now if you can get the reporter of the bug to build a kernel with the
> above change and test that, then that would be great. If things do not work
> OOTB with this change, then we may need to do some additional work on
> the kernel side, but we do already support lightspeed receivers, so
> we should be able to add support for this new model too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
> 
> [1] https://github.com/libratbag/libratbag/pull/1071
> 
> 
> 

Great to know!

I have that device, I can try it out and send a patch if everything is working
correctly :)

The lightspeed receivers we support all have the DJ interface, these new ones do
not. But yeah, I think it should just work, or at least be simple to make it
work.

Cheers,
Filipe Laíns

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