Re: TMDC Joystick no longer works in kernel 2.6.28

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

(cc linux-input)

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:53:40 -0600 "Andrew S. Johnson" <andy@asjohnson.com> wrote:

> Up through kernel version 2.6.27.9 I have had no problems with
> my joystick on the game port.  Now with 2.6.28, the game port
> is recognized when the gameport and ns558 modules load, but
> loading the tmdc module doesn't also automatically load joydev,
> and even loading joydev manually doesn't give me a working
> joystick.  There are no error messages in dmesg, /var/log/messages, 
> or /var/log/syslog.  This is on Slackware 12.1, so I don't think
> it's a distro issue.  Do I need to do something different than
> in the past to make it work, or is there some debug I can turn
> on to give more info?
> 

If this doesn't get resolved with a few days, please raise a report at
bugzilla.kernel.org, so that we can not fix it in a more organised
fashion, thanks.