The current approach of effectively white-listing devices that support HID++ high resolution scrolling is susceptible to a poor user experience in particular for new Logitech devices that have yet to be added to the quirk list, especially with Logitech not maintaining the list but is a matter left up to the open-source community. Thankfully developer Bastien Nocera has taken to improving the hid-logitech-hidpp driver to actually detect the high resolution scrolling support and thus allowing the list to be eliminated.
This patch is queued in HID's for-next branch ahead of the Linux 6.1 merge window opening shortly.
This change will detect whether HID++ 1.0 hi-res scroll, HID++ 2.0 hi-res scroll or HID++ 2.0 hi-res scroll wheel is supported, and enable the feature without the need for quirks.
Tested on a Logitech M705 mouse that was unsupported before this change.
Users can look at logitech-hidpp lines in dmesg for messages such as "Detected HID++ 2.0 hi-res scroll wheel" in determining whether your Linux mouse is making use of high resolution scrolling / high resolution scroll wheel support. This change will hopefully see a lot more Logitech devices now supporting this feature under Linux that previously weren't part of the device quirk list. This is more useful with a modern Linux desktop now that Wayland supports high resolution scroll events and there's been libinput support since earlier this year .
It's also with Linux 6.1 that the driver is now trying to enable HID++ for all Logitech Bluetooth devices .