91142 – gentoo-sources does not include a 32bit joystick ioctl compatibility wrappers

Bug 91142 - gentoo-sources does not include a 32bit joystick ioctl compatibility wrappers

Summary: gentoo-sources does not include a 32bit joystick ioctl compatibility wrappers

Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	AMD64 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2005-05-02 02:56 UTC by Andreas Pokorny (RETIRED)
Modified:	2005-05-08 04:59 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Andreas Pokorny (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-02 02:56:58 UTC

32bit games like vendetta (www.vendetta-online.com) fail in detecting the joystick on x86-64, due to missing ioctl entries. 
The url above shows a small fix, which adds these entries to the 32bit compatibility layer. With that patch applied vendetta now properly detects the joystick, while some other 32bit games still fail, e.g. vegastrike-privateer, although the amount of failing accesses done by this game was reduced by this patch. 

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-02 03:31:41 UTC

I would recommend trying to get this fixed upstream rather than in gentoo-sources.

Comment 2 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-05-08 04:59:19 UTC

Yep.. please get this accepted upstream. I'd suggest you mail the linux kernel mailing list CC'ing the relevant people (see /usr/src/linux/MAINTAINERS)