On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:31:46AM +0100, Stefan Bader wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > 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 ;) > > > > This might be an overly naive approach (or call it thinking loudly)... > It would probably break a lot of stuff when the JOYSTICK/TRIGGER block > moved to the 0x210 region, but would it be a solution to have a block > of additional joystick buttons there and check on assigning buttons to > a joystick, whether it traverses over to GAMEPAD and in that case skip > to the additional block? > That's what we have to do I guess... I wonder how many keycodes will we need so we won't have to split the region again? Will they come up with 70 buttons next time? -- 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
