Bug 201571

Summary:	hid-steam makes some Steam games fail
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	Rodrigo Rivas Costa (rodrigorivascosta)
Component:	Input Devices	Assignee:	drivers_input-devices
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	doylelou2
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	4.18	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description Rodrigo Rivas Costa 2018-10-30 19:43:34 UTC

Hi.

This bug [1] in the Valve github tracker seems to be caused by the hid-steam driver, written by me, introduced in 4.18.

With this driver there is a new input device, which is disabled when the Steam client is running. That is usually harmless, but some games go nuts with that extra device.

I have written a patch, that instead of disabling the device, removes it when Steam is running, and recreates it when Steam is closed.

I have submitted it to LKML a few days ago [2], but it looks like it went through the cracks... It would be great is someone could check it.

Thanks. 

[1]: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5645
[2]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/14/502