Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] HID: wiiu-drc: Add a driver for the Wii U gamepad

From: Emmanuel Gil Peyrot
Date: Tue Oct 19 2021 - 05:36:27 EST


On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 11:30:06AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021, Emmanuel Gil Peyrot wrote:
>
> > > The code looks good to me, the only question/request I'd have is -- would
> > > it be possible to adhere to the driver naming standards, and actually
> > > incorporate the support to existing hid-nintendo driver? Or is there any
> > > substantial reason which I don't see why this wouldn't be a good idea?
> >
> > I don’t see any existing driver named that way in mainline, would it be
> > acceptable to simply rename the current patches to hid-nintendo? What
> > should be done about the existing hid-wiimote driver then, should it
> > also be merged alongside?
>
> hid-nintendo has just recently been staged for 5.16 in
> hid.git#for-5.16/nintendo git branch. Could you please check that?

Got it, thanks!

>
> > Another driver I’d like to submit eventually is the GameCube Controller
> > Adapter for Wii U, which does exactly what its name says, but being an
> > external USB adapter it also works on any USB computer; would it make
> > sense to develop it alongside the current driver, just because it is
> > sold by the same company?
>
> We generally group the support for HID devices in drivers based on the
> producing company, with a few exceptions where it doesn't make sense.

Would it make sense to decouple this driver from the joycon driver? To
have some kind of sub-driver (possibly with Kconfig entries) for joycon,
wiimote, drc, gc-adapter, maybe more in the future? I don’t see the drc
code go well into that one C file. I can handle the split of the joycon
into its own file if that’s a good way forward.

>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs

--
Emmanuel Gil Peyrot

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