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[PATCH 0/3] HID: wiimote: new LED behavior on connect, and scoped guards

From: Rafael Passos <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-10 15:35:29

Hi,
This patchset contains one feature change, and two cleanup patches.

The feature is turning different LEDs for each of the first 4 wiimotes connected.
From id 5 forward, the LED will cycle back to 1, and so on.
This uses the ida struct, so its quite simple and lightweight.
The hid_info log message prints out the controller id.
I was considering adding this number to the controller name too,
but was unsure if this could impact applications using it.

While implementing this feature, I decided to cleanup the code using
scoped_guard for the many spinlocks in the driver. There are two places
where the original lock/unlock version fits best, and I left them
untouched.
Lastly, I used the __free scope cleanup in the LED probe function.
The wiimote_hid_probe call can also be changed in this way, but I
left it because it uses the wiimote_destroy in one of the err cases (w/ kfree inside).
But I can apply the change there too, to make this more complete.

It was really fun working with this driver.
I tested it with 4 Wii Motion Plus remotes (gen2).
Video recording of my tests (48s video).
https://rcpassos.me/video/wiimote-led-linux-driver

Thanks,
Rafael Passos

Rafael Passos (3):
  HID: wiimote: turn on the LEDs indicating the controller id
  HID: wiimote: replace spinlock pairs with scoped_guard
  HID: wiimote: use scoped cleanup in led creation

 drivers/hid/hid-wiimote-core.c    | 252 ++++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/hid/hid-wiimote-debug.c   |  41 ++---
 drivers/hid/hid-wiimote-modules.c |  22 ++-
 drivers/hid/hid-wiimote.h         |   8 +
 4 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 158 deletions(-)

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