Nintendo Switch Controller Driver To Be Upstreamed With Linux 5.10 Written by Michael Larabel in Hardware on 30 August 2020 at 02:58 PM EDT. 7 Comments There has been the out-of-tree DKMS hid-nintendo driver to support the Nintendo Switch controller on Linux while with the Linux 5.10 kernel later this year that driver will be merged. The HID subsystem is queuing the Nintendo driver ahead of the Li