Re: [PATCH v4] Add rumble support to latest xbox controllers

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023, Siarhei Vishniakou wrote:

> Currently, rumble is only supported via bluetooth on a single xbox
> controller, called 'model 1708'. On the back of the device, it's named
> 'wireless controller for xbox one'. However, in 2021, Microsoft released
> a firmware update for this controller. As part of this update, the HID
> descriptor of the device changed. The product ID was also changed from
> 0x02fd to 0x0b20. On this controller, rumble was supported via
> hid-microsoft, which matched against the old product id (0x02fd). As a
> result, the firmware update broke rumble support on this controller.
> 
> See:
> https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/09/08/xbox-controller-firmware-update-rolling-out-to-insiders-starting-today/
> 
> The hid-microsoft driver actually supports rumble on the new firmware,
> as well. So simply adding new product id is sufficient to bring back
> this support.
> 
> After discussing further with the xbox team, it was pointed out that
> another xbox controller, xbox elite series 2, can be supported in a
> similar way.
> 
> Add rumble support for all of these devices in this patch. Two of the
> devices have received firmware updates that caused their product id's to
> change. Both old and new firmware versions of these devices were tested.
> 
> The tested controllers are:
> 
> 1. 'wireless controller for xbox one', model 1708
> 2. 'xbox wireless controller', model 1914. This is also sometimes
>    referred to as 'xbox series S|X'.
> 3. 'elite series 2', model 1797.
> 
> The tested configurations are:
> 1. model 1708, pid 0x02fd (old firmware)
> 2. model 1708, pid 0x0b20 (new firmware)
> 3. model 1914, pid 0x0b13
> 4. model 1797, pid 0x0b05 (old firmware)
> 5. model 1797, pid 0x0b22 (new firmware)
> 
> I verified rumble support on both bluetooth and usb.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Bastien Nocera <hadess@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Siarhei Vishniakou <svv@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, sorry for the delay.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs