Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] MR11621: Prefer hidraw for Valve devices

[Rémi Bernon (＠rbernon)]

On Wed Aug 12 14:56:14 2026 +0000, Rick Rey wrote:
> This was made with macOS in mind where we don’t have Proton and so we
> play windows games by installing the Steam client into WINE. If I need
> to add a check for if WINE is running on macOS for this I will.
> It's difficult to decide whether we want that or not. It's indeed possible that it would allow Steam for Windows to recognize Valve hardware in a better way, but it's also possible that it would break other legitimate use cases like running Wine under Steam for Linux with Valve hardware handled by Steam on the Linux side directly.

It doesn't seem possible to support both use cases by default, and the latter is a Linux-only use case, but we also have many registry keys to allow enabling hidraw for a specific VID if it's not the default. It would be nice if that were good enough :).

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https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/11621#note_149337