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and subject line Re: kernel recognizes keyboards and mice as joysticks
has caused the Debian Bug report #884595,
regarding udev: consider blacklisting fake joystick devices
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Package: powermanga
Version: 0.93.1-2
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The game didn't work at all.
After loading the game the selected option is 'Quit'. 'Up arrow' key didn't
work on main menu, so I only can change menu option by pressing 'down arrow'.
Once 'Play' option is selected the game starts and the ship goes to up-left
corner and I can't move it from there.
Regards,
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Debian Release: buster/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages powermanga depends on:
ii libc6 2.25-4
ii libpng16-16 1.6.34-1
ii libsdl-mixer1.2 1.2.12-14
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.15+dfsg2-0.1
ii powermanga-data 0.93.1-2
powermanga recommends no packages.
powermanga suggests no packages.
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Am 18.12.2017 um 17:55 schrieb Markus Koschany:
> retitle 884595 udev: consider blacklisting fake joystick devices
> reassign 884595 udev
> clone 884595 -1
> reassign -1 src:linux
> retitle -1 kernel recognizes keyboards and mice as joysticks
> thanks
>
> Am 18.12.2017 um 00:33 schrieb 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.
>
> Michael what point does it serve to reassign this bug back to
> powermanga? I explained to you that keyboards and mice are recognized as
> joysticks and powermanga is surely not responsible for creating device
> nodes. All games and applications with joystick support are affected.
>
> I am going to clone this bug report and reassign it to src:linux and
> reassign 884595 back to udev.
>
> Reasoning for reassignment:
>
> The kernel is responsible for creating device nodes. Various keyboard
> and mouse models are detected as joysticks though. This makes several
> games hard or even impossible to control because the application code
> assumes a joystick is a joystick and not a keyboard or a mouse.
>
> There are two longstanding kernel bugs which describe the same issue for
> two devices:
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28912
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37982
>
> Here are two more Debian bug reports which describe the same issue
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=711350
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714401
>
> The issue is still reproducible with the latest kernel in Sid.
>
> If this bug cannot be fixed in time for the next stable release aka
> Buster then I would like to see that the udev maintainers create a
> blacklist for such keyboards and mice.
>
> 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 you reassigned it back even though I explained that udev is not the
proper place to maintain such a blacklist.
I'm thus going to close this bug report
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