[PATCH] Make joystick probing more robust

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 28 01:12:00 PDT 2008


Matthew Garrett [2008-10-21 16:37 +0100]:
> Most joysticks will report ABS_X and ABS_Y. This currently results in 
> them falling into the vmware mouse hack and ending up tagged with 
> input.mouse. This patch catches those and also adds a couple of other 
> cases of devices that should be flagged as joysticks.

Thanks Matthew. I tested this patch with my Logitech Thrustmaster USB,
works fine.

For the record, there is a Launchpad bug report [1] with another
proposed patch [2]. TIMTOWTDI, I figure...

Martin

[1] https://launchpad.net/bugs/284129
[2] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18782718/hal-input-test-abs.patch

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