From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: linux kernel HID problem with Saitek X52 Pro Flight System Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:44:25 -0800 Message-ID: <20091212044425.GA2956@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <4B21308F.5070304@canonical.com> <1260541128.3656.6.camel@bede> <4B225601.3080002@canonical.com> <1260572529.3656.12.camel@bede> <4B22F952.6070001@iki.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f188.google.com ([209.85.222.188]:54776 "EHLO mail-pz0-f188.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761193AbZLLEoY (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:44:24 -0500 Received: by pzk26 with SMTP id 26so1047220pzk.4 for ; Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:44:31 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B22F952.6070001@iki.fi> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Anssi Hannula Cc: Tim Cole , Stefan Bader , Jiri Kosina , Sergey Kolesnikov , linux-input@vger.kernel.org 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 ;) -- Dmitry