Linux 5.11 Will Play Nicely With The Sega Saturn Controllers Connected Via USB Adapter

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.11 Will Play Nicely With The Sega Saturn Controllers Connected Via USB Adapter

For those fond of the Sega Saturn video game console controllers from the mid-90s, the Linux 5.11 kernel has a fix so a common USB adapter for them will behave nicely...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.11-Sega-Saturn-Control

[all3f0r1]

People have a lot of time to waste these days... Next, Ouya controller? (Which I shamelessly have).

[andre30correia]

I can't understand why kernel devs put such things or even worst permit this junk, this should be userspace, useless code making the kernel more heavy for not a really good reason

[Calinou]

It's the year of the Sega Saturn desktop.

[kpedersen]

Is there a reason this adapter doesn't expose the Saturn controller as an existing device so we don't need bespoke code for this to work?

I love the idea of gaining access to my older game controllers but the adapter looks poorly made with bad decisions. Typical Windows driver stuff in all fairness

[RealNC]

I can't understand why kernel devs put such things or even worst permit this junk, this should be userspace, useless code making the kernel more heavy for not a really good reason

Read the article next time:

"The commit is adding a USB HID quirk (HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT) so that it's exposed to user-space in a consistent manner."

[theriddick]

People have a lot of time to waste these days... Next, Ouya controller? (Which I shamelessly have).

The Atari VCS beckons you!