The HID subsystem updates landed this week for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel that includes new hardware support and other changes.

Most notable with the Human Interface Devices (HID) updates for Linux 7.1 is introducing the hid-lenovo-go and hid-lenovo-go-s drivers for the Lenovo Legon Go series of handhelds. These HID drivers [1]expose more configurable settings of the controllers under Linux such as for rumble and haptic handling, RGB LED controls, touchpad attributes, and more. All these tunables are exposed via sysfs for adjusting from user-space.

These Lenovo Legion Go HID drivers have been worked on the past several months and are finally mainline with Linux 7.1.

Also notable from the HID pull for Linux 7.1 is adding various Sony Rock Band and Sony DJ Hero Turntable devices to the Sony HID driver. If you had some Rock Band or Turntable devices previously not working under Linux, you may want to give it a go with Linux 7.1. While in the Sony HID driver, this also includes the Rock Band 1/2/3 Wii/PS3 instruments and Rock Band 3 PS3 Pro instruments with just different IDs.

HID work in Linux 7.1 also includes supporting rumble effects in the Winwing driver, power management improvements to the Intel THC HID driver, and various fixes. The full list of changes can be found via [2]this pull request that merged this week to Git for Linux 7.1.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Go-S-HID-Linux-7.1

[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/15oppqqo-448q-8634-nq89-274260nos8s6@xreary.bet/