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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 
1.0.3705)

Description of problem:
The joystick driver, generic, found in joydev.c (/drivers/input/joydev.c) looks 
for both axis and button in the connect function before it accepts the device.

Many joysticks, OEM and Pedals, do not have buttons and some have even resorted 
to putting fake button circuits on the chip which mess things up sometimes.

I made a personal fix for this, but it seems to be a large need as a whole.  I 
used a usb joystick for this project.

Corey
Applied Research Associates

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. modprobe joydev
2. cat /dev/input/js0
3.
    

Actual Results:  device not found

Expected Results:  opens and displays characters from joystick device.

Additional info:

This exists on the joystick driver included in the lastest kernels.