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More HID BPF Functionality & New Drivers For Linux 6.11


Upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel last year was HID BPF as a means of more easily shipping new drivers and in particular quirks/workarounds for different HID devices

Within hid.git's for-next branch is a lot of new HID BPF code queued ahead of Linux 6.11. This device has 6 buttons and a wheel, all of which send key combinations (see the comments for the defaults). Great seeing all the work on HID BPF beginning to pan out for the Linux kernel.

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