fix: using joysticks in 32 bit applications on 64 bit systems

unfortunately 32 bit apps don't see the joysticks on a 64 bit system.
this prevents one playing X-Plane (http://www.x-plane.com/) or other
32-bit games with joysticks.

this is a known issue, and already raised several times:

 http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/28/144411.html

 http://www.brettcsmith.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=browse&diff=1&id=OzyComputer/Joystick

unfortunately this is still not fixed in the mainline kernel.

it would be nice to have this fixed, so that people can play these games
without having to patch their kernel.

the following patch solves the problem on 2.6.22.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Akos Maroy 2008-01-06 11:15:55 +01:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7b3d9545f9
commit 3fee37c1e2

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@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
* ioctls.
*/
#include <linux/joystick.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@ -2642,6 +2644,12 @@ COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(VIDEO_SET_ATTRIBUTES)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(VIDEO_GET_SIZE)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(VIDEO_GET_FRAME_RATE)
/* joystick */
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGVERSION)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGAXES)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGBUTTONS)
COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(JSIOCGNAME(0))
/* now things that need handlers */
HANDLE_IOCTL(MEMREADOOB32, mtd_rw_oob)
HANDLE_IOCTL(MEMWRITEOOB32, mtd_rw_oob)