Public bug reported:
I'm testing in Ubuntu 15.10 with kernel 4.2.0-16.19 but this bug report
actually applies to ALL kernels starting at 3.15 until the current
4.3rc7 and is not limited to Ubuntu.
I have a brand new Sony DualShock 4 that seems to use a slightly
different protocol than the hid-sony driver expects. I'm not sure why
this controller is different. Maybe updated firmware from Sony or maybe
because it has never been connected to a PS4. Whatever the case, the
device descriptor size is different from what hid-sony expects and
because of that it does not remap the descriptor table as required. This
causes only the trackpad to function (the trackpad uses a different code
path) and none of the other controls work. So basically the controller
does not work at all.
I have created a patch that fixes it. I have only tested the patch
against kernel 4.2 and 4.3 but it's simple enough that it should be
trivially portable to any 3.15+ kernel. The attached patch is based
against the Ubuntu mainline-crack git v4.2 kernel.
I posted to the LKML asking if the descriptor size check was even
necessary but never got a response so I left it in.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Patch added: "hid-sony-ds4.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511855/+attachment/4509539/+files/hid-sony-ds4.patch
** Package changed: apport (Ubuntu) => linux-meta (Ubuntu)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1511855
Title:
Some Sony Dualshock 4 controllers do not work in kernel 3.15+
Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
I'm testing in Ubuntu 15.10 with kernel 4.2.0-16.19 but this bug
report actually applies to ALL kernels starting at 3.15 until the
current 4.3rc7 and is not limited to Ubuntu.
I have a brand new Sony DualShock 4 that seems to use a slightly
different protocol than the hid-sony driver expects. I'm not sure why
this controller is different. Maybe updated firmware from Sony or
maybe because it has never been connected to a PS4. Whatever the case,
the device descriptor size is different from what hid-sony expects and
because of that it does not remap the descriptor table as required.
This causes only the trackpad to function (the trackpad uses a
different code path) and none of the other controls work. So basically
the controller does not work at all.
I have created a patch that fixes it. I have only tested the patch
against kernel 4.2 and 4.3 but it's simple enough that it should be
trivially portable to any 3.15+ kernel. The attached patch is based
against the Ubuntu mainline-crack git v4.2 kernel.
I posted to the LKML asking if the descriptor size check was even
necessary but never got a response so I left it in.
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