Re: Fun with sony motion controllers: navigation controller

Jiri Kosina
2015-03-16T13:56:06Z

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:

> On Mon 2015-03-16 13:55:39, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > After oopsing kernel with ps/3 peripherals, I decided to play some
> > > more.
> > >
> > > First "sony motion controller" (part of ps/3 move without the
> > > led). Good news is that it no longer oopses. After pressing the PS
> > > button, it seems to work, but it produces endless stream of events in
> > > evtest:
> > >
> > > Event: time 1426360519.967818, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 0 (ABS_X), value 131
> > > Event: time 1426360519.967818, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 1 (ABS_Y), value 129
> > > Event: time 1426360519.967818, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 59 (ABS_MT_DISTANCE), value 513
> > > Event: time 1426360519.967818, type 3 (EV_ABS), code 60 (ABS_MT_TOOL_X), value 513
> > >
> > > Should it really produce multitouch events?
> >
> > Some sony devices are producing multitouch events. You unfortunately
> > didn't send us the VID/PID of the device you are playing with.
>
> Umm. I thought multitouch events are for touchscreen. This is joystick
> with accelerometer...?

Ok, that's USB_DEVICE_ID_SONY_NAVIGATION_CONTROLLER, which should get
SIXAXIS_CONTROLLER_USB. That one shouldn't really be producing multitouch
events.

Could you please add printk()s to hid-sony.c to see how it's possible that
it's generating those?

I am sure Frank will comment on this as well.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs