[NOT-FOR-UPSTREAM, RETIRED] HID: ayaneo: LED-name experiment

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Retired experiment. The name change did not expose Steam controls in the recorded test and is not required by the current managed-lighting path. This draft is preserved as negative evidence; no adoption or additional kernel change is proposed.

This is an OGC-only go:rgb:joystick_rings compatibility-name experiment for AYANEO joystick lighting. Private device testing found no Steam controls with either the generic name or this candidate, so it remains unqualified and draft.

Only the LED name and its allocation change. Color, brightness, effect attributes, HID commands and Magic Modules behavior remain unchanged. Based on features/ayaneo at f4471f7a956cadd1f518e87b07b3a06e3bc1e9c9; candidate 64fb9d5b9e58290b48b69fed175fd7c35ad846b4.

Current path: InputPlumber #734 provides managed native lighting; #735 is closed. OGC #123 already supplies the AYANEO interfaces. This naming patch is not a dependency.

The recorded generic-name and renamed-device tests were both unsuccessful. Retain their evidence without adopting the go-style name as a generic upstream ABI requirement.

Private device test on 2026-10-14: AYANEO 3 8840U, BIOS 1.00, Bazzite 44.20261012.1, kernel 7.2.9-ogc3.1.fc44.x86_64, Steam 1791918634 / steamdeck_stable (Oct 13 updater). The stock generic name did not expose controls in Steam Customization with the effective InputPlumber profile containing no LED entries. Brightness, multi_intensity and effect were writable as the Steam user.

The candidate HID module built against the exact installed kernel headers and loaded successfully, exposing go:rgb:joystick_rings, both module IDs and the same writable attributes. Steam restarted after the load, but the user still saw no joystick lighting controls. Steam logs classify the device as SteamOSGeneric; the root cause of the missing controls remains unresolved. On the restored stock driver, the native LEDManager GetState call succeeds with is_service_available=false and devices=[]. The naming change alone is not demonstrated to solve discovery. The temporary module was unloaded and the packaged stock driver restored. The initial Steam-first pause was superseded by the managed native path in InputPlumber #734. This naming experiment is retired and unqualified; no full kernel/image build or official Bazzite acceptance is claimed.

Assisted-by: Codex:GPT-6

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