Re: Small patch to hid-core.c for usb PS2 joystick adaptor

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 03:06:16PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
>On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Philip Armstrong wrote:
>
>> It's a no-name Chinese thing, which lsusb reports as:
>>  Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0810:0001 Personal Communication Systems, Inc.
>> However, it needs the HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT flag set, as it has sockets 
>> for two joysticks which otherwise get reported as a single 
>> /dev/input/js0
>
>this device is already properly handled by HID since 2.6.21-rc1. 

I should have checked obviously! Sorry...

>In addition to what you did (HID_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT), it is also needed to 
>handle the fact that the device also uses one output report per controller 
>(on the same interface), that controls the force feedback. It is not 
>desired to have these as separate input devices. Current HID code skips 
>output reports on this device, and lets force feedback driver to take care 
>of them.

I'll try that on my machine (which isn't going to get updated to
2.6.21 anytime soon...). Although I don't know of any games that
actually *use* the force feedback...

cheers, Phil

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