On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 04:00:50AM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote: > Tim Cole wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 15:24 +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: > >> The problem moved though. For the older kernels it was the tablets that > >> were incorrectly detected as joysticks. But that patch of you went upstream > >> and now it is the one joystick model that does not work. > >> In our tree we reverted the patch in Jaunty, but with Karmic we have the other > >> behavior. So in essence, someone is always complaining. :-P > > > > I know what you mean, but well -- ideally we want to converge on the > > correct behavior. Otherwise we'll just keep spinning and things stay > > broken. > > > > To my view, blacklisting a joystick which (wrongly) reports itself as a > > digitizer tablet is an improvement over creating broken joystick devices > > for anything that reports itself as a tablet. From that position we can > > fix the problem with the single device reporting the wrong device type > > and then everyone can be happy. > > As far as I understood, we do not yet know why the joystick gets > assigned digitizer keys, as the HID debug information requested has not > been provided. We do not know for sure what the joystick itself reports > or whether it is wrong or not. > Well, the thing is reported ot have 39 buttons... HID simply starts at BTN_TRIGGER and goes form there. 39 buttons.. sheesh.. maybe we need to reclassify it as a keyboard and be done with it ;) -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
