Re: [PATCH v12 1/3] HID: nintendo: Add preliminary Switch 2 controller driver

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026, Vicki Pfau wrote:

> This adds a new driver for the Switch 2 controllers. The Switch 2 uses an
> unusual split-interface design such that input and rumble occur on the main
> HID interface, but all other communication occurs over a "configuration"
> interface. This is the case on both USB and Bluetooth, so this new driver
> uses a split-driver design with the HID interface being the "main" driver
> and the configuration interface is a secondary driver that looks up to the
> HID interface, sharing resources on a common struct.
> 
> Due to using a non-standard pairing interface as well as Bluetooth
> communications being extremely limited in the kernel, a custom interface
> between userspace and the kernel will need to be designed, along with
> bringup in BlueZ. That is beyond the scope of this initial patch, which
> only contains the generic HID and USB configuration interface drivers.
> 
> This initial work supports general input for the Joy-Con 2, Pro Controller
> 2, and GameCube NSO controllers. IMU, rumble and battery support is not yet
> present.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vicki Pfau <[email protected]>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |    1 +
>  drivers/hid/Kconfig                           |   11 +-
>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h                         |    4 +
>  drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c                    | 1277 ++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.h                    |   72 +
>  drivers/input/joystick/Kconfig                |   11 +
>  drivers/input/joystick/Makefile               |    1 +
>  drivers/input/joystick/nintendo-switch2-usb.c |  475 ++++++

Dmitry, can you please Ack the drivers/input/ bits here?

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs