Bug#884595: powermanga: Controls didn't work

[Michael Biebl]

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.

No, device nodes are created by the kernel (via devtmpfs). udev simply
creates symlinks and applies permissions (and provides means for
applications to listen for uevents).

Michael

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