Bug#884595: kernel recognizes keyboards and mice as joysticks

Markus Koschany apo at debian.org
Mon Dec 18 22:15:02 GMT 2017


Am 18.12.2017 um 22:59 schrieb Stephen Kitt:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:55:21 +0100, Markus Koschany <apo at debian.org> wrote:
>> Preliminary work is already available at:
>>
>> https://github.com/denilsonsa/udev-joystick-blacklist
>>
>> If the udev maintainers don't want to create and maintain such a
>> blacklist, then please mark this bug report as "wontfix" accordingly.
>> Please don't reassign it back to affected games and applications.
>> Whether I or someone else wants to provide a patch should not be the
>> criterion for bug assignment.
> 
> ... and the joystick package includes the blacklist linked above. Installing
> that should fix many of this issues.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephen

Alas the joystick package is only optional while udev is priority
important. It is rather unlikely that someone will have it installed
already. The issue is that those people would not even think about a
joystick, they just assume the game/application is broken. It's rather
strange to recommend the installation of joystick when you want to play
a game without one. This issue should be solved in packages which are
guaranteed to be installed on a default desktop computer like udev.


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