Re: [PATCH] Input: break joystick limitation of maximum 80 buttons

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 07:54:54AM +0800, Wei Shuai wrote:
> The joystick max buttons 80 limitation comes from
> 
> #define BTN_JOYSTICK 0x120
> #define BTN_DEAD 0x12f
> #define BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPY 0x2c0
> #define KEY_MAX 0x2ff
> 
> include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> 
> according to function hidinput_configure_usage() in file drivers/hid/hid-input.c
> 
> the joystick button mapping is not a continues space
> generally speaking, the mapping space is from
> 
> 1. BTN_JOYSTICK~BTN_DEAD
> 2. BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPY~KEY_MAX
> 
> Finally, I got the max limitation is 80.
> The patch is expanding KEY_MAX from 0x2ff to 4ff
> and the change has been verified on 104 button USB HID device on Ubuntu


If you send and resend this patch too often, nobody will take you seriously.
Also, you have to provide versioning and changelog in each submission.
Besides that, above doesn't answer to question "why?". Why are you doing this
at all? What the problem?


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko