Re: [Bug #12426] TMDC Joystick no longer works in kernel 2.6.28

Andrew S. Johnson
2009-01-23T02:06:44Z

On Thursday 22 January 2009 07:34:46 am Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12426
> > > Subject : TMDC Joystick no longer works in kernel 2.6.28
> > > Submitter : Andrew S. Johnson <andy-9eXmkf4BiQ2aMJb+Lgu22Q@public.gmane.org>
> > > Date : 2009-01-10 21:53 (10 days old)
> > > References :
> > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123162486415366&w=4
> >
> > I have installed kernel 2.6.28.1, and this still does not work.
>
> What exactly doesn't work? Namely:
>
> - do you see jsX node appearing in /dev after you modprobe joydev
> manually?

No. Running 2.6.28.1 "find /dev -ls | grep j" returns nothing.

Running 2.6.27.9, the same "find /dev -ls | grep j" returns:

10353 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 22 18:23 /dev/js0 -> input/js0
10347 0 crw-r--r-- 1 root root Jan 22 18:23 /dev/input/js0
10351 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jan 22 18:23 /dev/.udev/names/input\\x2fjs0
10352 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /dev/.udev/names/input\\x2fjs0/\\x2fclass\\x2finput\\x2finput5\\x2fjs0
10349 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Jan 22 18:23 /dev/.udev/names/js0
10350 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /dev/.udev/names/js0/\\x2fclass\\x2finput\\x2finput5\\x2fjs0
10348 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66 Jan 22 18:23 /dev/.udev/db/\\x2fclass\\x2finput\\x2finput5\\x2fjs0

> - do you see the corresponding entry for the gameport in
> /sys/bus/gameport/{devices,drivers} ?

These are almost the same when running "find /sys/bus/gameport -ls":

Kernel 2.6.28.1 (missing one line):

9575 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jan 22 18:13 /sys/bus/gameport
9576 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:16 /sys/bus/gameport/uevent
9577 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 22 18:13 /sys/bus/gameport/devices
9783 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:13 /sys/bus/gameport/devices/gameport0 -> ../../../devices/pnp0/00:07/gameport0
9578 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 22 18:15 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers
12186 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 22 18:15 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc
12187 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:17 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/module -> ../../../../module/tmdc
12190 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:17 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/uevent
12191 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:17 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/description
12192 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:17 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/unbind
12193 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:17 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/bind
9579 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:16 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers_probe
9580 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:16 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers_autoprobe

Kernel 2.6.27.9 has one more line (see 12040):

9489 0 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /sys/bus/gameport
9490 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/uevent
9491 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /sys/bus/gameport/devices
9774 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /sys/bus/gameport/devices/gameport0 -> ../../../devices/pnp0/00:07/gameport0
9492 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers
12039 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jan 22 18:23 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc
12040 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/gameport0 -> ../../../../devices/pnp0/00:07/gameport0
12078 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/module -> ../../../../module/tmdc
12081 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/uevent
12082 0 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/description
12083 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/unbind
12084 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers/tmdc/bind
9493 0 --w------- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers_probe
9494 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Jan 22 18:53 /sys/bus/gameport/drivers_autoprobe

If there is anything else I can provide, please let me know.

Andy Johnson