Re: issue with Mad Catz joystick ?

[Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>]

On Sat, 2015-05-09 at 10:54 +0200, Guillaume Apostoly wrote:
> The issues I have to investigate further is that I don't understand
> how the kernel decide which module is loaded for the joypad, if I
> modprobe other joystick related modules I don't see how to know if
> module A or B is handling it.

Depends on USB VID/PID or USB Descriptor. If you want to read more about
USB, e.g. look at: www.usb.org
As far as I know, PS3 controllers come with a HID descriptor, so the
generic hid driver binds this. It's quirks get organized by
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-quirks.c

> All I know is jstest "kind of" work with it but does not.
> If you could point me to some leads that could be cool, I can give you
> external root access to it if you want.

No, I don't want that! :)

bye
 -- chf