Re: HID joystick - Axis 11 non operational.

On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 16:15:11 +0200
Antonio Ospite [off-list ref] wrote:

I confirm that the axis for Dpad-left (usage->code == 0x2f IINM) of the
Sixaxis looks like it is not working. I too can see the data on hidraw
device but not on the joystick or even the event device, so it may be
below the joystick layer.

OK found something: 0x2f is ABS_MT_SLOT,
http://lxr.linux.no/linux+*/include/linux/input.h#L773

And in input.c::input_handle_abs_event() this case is handled in a
special way:
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.39/drivers/input/input.c#L172

This little change improves thins a little bit, but the pressure event is
now reported twice, once with the actual value and once with 0, you can test
with:

 $ evtest /dev/input/eventX | \
   egrep -v 'code (0|1|2|5|48|49|50|51|52|53|54|55|56|57|58|58|59)|Report Sync'

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/input/input.c
===================================================================

--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/input/input.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/input/input.c

@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
        bool is_mt_event;
        int *pold;
 
-       if (code == ABS_MT_SLOT) {
+       if (code == ABS_MT_SLOT && dev->mtsize > 0) {
                /*
                 * "Stage" the event; we'll flush it later, when we
                 * get actual touch data.

@@ -210,6 +210,9 @@
                input_pass_event(dev, EV_ABS, ABS_MT_SLOT, dev->slot);
        }
 
+       if (code == 0x2f)
+               printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: code: %08x handled value: %d\n", __func__, code, *pval);
+
        return INPUT_PASS_TO_HANDLERS;
 }

Otherwise we would need to remap the axis code to something more
meaningful by patching the HID descriptor, can this be done?

Regards,
   Antonio

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