Bug#884595: powermanga: Controls didn't work

[Michael Biebl]

Control: reassign -1 powermanga

Am 17.12.2017 um 23:24 schrieb Markus Koschany:
> Am 17.12.2017 um 23:02 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> [...]
>> I don't have access to such a device, but it looks like this device node
>> /dev/input/js0 is created by the kernel.
>> Please elaborate why this is supposed to be a bug in udev.
> 
> I'm not familiar with udev and I would have expected that the device
> manager is responsible for creating or handling device nodes. This could
> also be a bug in the kernel. We have received similar bug reports [1]
> [2] for games in the past.
> 
> In #714399 [3] Peter De Wachter pointed out that it might be a
> longstanding kernel bug, reported as:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28912
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37982
> 
> But there is also a way to work around this issue by blacklisting such
> devices with udev rules:
> 
> https://github.com/denilsonsa/udev-joystick-blacklist
> 
> I'm not sure if someone ever intends to fix these kernel bugs. If udev
> is not responsible for creating those fake joystick devices for
> keyboards and mice, then please consider to blacklist the affected
> devices, so that they will not be confused with joysticks.

I'm reassigning this back to powermanga. the udev package is not a
proper place for such a blacklist. I'll let you decide if you want to
reassign this bug to the kernel or if you want to provide such a
blacklist on your own.


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