linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] HID: steelseries: Add support for Arctis headset lineup

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Message-ID: <564ac92e-2049-4c9c-a701-f0e1c6d33f24@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:01:26 -0500
From: Benjamin Wheeler <benjaminwheeler0510@...il.com>
To: Sriman Achanta <srimanachanta@...il.com>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
 Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@...nel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] HID: steelseries: Add support for Arctis headset
 lineup

Hello,

I'm Benjamin, and I coincidentally have also been looking into this 
driver. Sriman, if you would like, I'd be happy to work together on this 
driver with you! In reviewing your patches, I have found and fixed a bug 
in my local tree regarding battery requests.

The Steelseries Arctis 7 and Arctis 7 (2019 ed.) are not implemented in 
the battery request logic, and simply report 100% (the default value 
during battery registration). I discovered this bug while testing your 
driver with my Arctis 7 :-)

Would you like me to send a formal patch for this? I also have some 
patches I can send that clean up the battery logic in general that make 
the code less complex.

I am also happy to look into creating ALSA mixers/switches as well. 
Please let me know how I can help! Excellent work so far, and smart 
choice in using HeadsetControl, they've done most of the heavy lifting 
for us.


Sincerely,

Benjamin Wheeler


On 1/11/26 11:19 PM, Sriman Achanta wrote:
> This patch series adds comprehensive support for the SteelSeries Arctis
> wireless gaming headset lineup to the hid-steelseries driver.
>
> The current driver provides only basic battery monitoring for Arctis 1
> and Arctis 9. This series extends support to 25+ Arctis models with
> full feature control including sidetone, auto-sleep, microphone
> controls, volume limiting, and Bluetooth settings.
>
> The driver restructure uses a capability-based device info system to
> cleanly handle the varying feature sets across different Arctis
> generations while maintaining support for the legacy SRW-S1 racing
> wheel.
>
> Patch 1: Add 27 new device IDs to hid-ids.h
> Patch 2: Add HID quirks for proper device initialization
> Patch 3: Update ABI documentation for new sysfs attributes
> Patch 4: Complete driver implementation with all features
>
> Tested on Arctis Nova 7 (0x2202). All other implementation details are
> based on the reverse engineering done in the HeadsetControl library
> (abe3ac8).
>
> V2:
> - Fix Documentation formatting issues
>
> Sriman Achanta (4):
>    HID: hid-ids: Add SteelSeries Arctis headset device IDs
>    HID: quirks: Add INPUT_CONFIGURED quirk for SteelSeries Arctis
>      headsets
>    Documentation: ABI: Document SteelSeries headset sysfs attributes
>    HID: steelseries: Add support for Arctis headset lineup
>
>   .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-srws1        |   21 -
>   .../ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-steelseries  |  131 ++
>   drivers/hid/hid-ids.h                         |   33 +-
>   drivers/hid/hid-quirks.c                      |   25 +
>   drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c                 | 2061 ++++++++++++++---
>   5 files changed, 1925 insertions(+), 346 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-srws1
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-hid-steelseries
>