Comment 15 for bug 124743

I've done the same thing as Jonathan Niehof in the previous comment (#14) but for Precise, probably not as neatly (my deb-fu isn't strong), and including another component (a dirty fix to kick hid-sony into action). I also rolled a .deb. The attached patch is against a freshly apt-get source'd, unpacked bluez_4.98.orig.tar.gz. For the .deb and details of what's in it and why, see https://iwilcox.me.uk/2012/sixaxis-ubuntu .

My political opinion: It's a shame that kernel support for PS3 HID peripherals is already in the mainline but userspace is lagging behind. I put this down to BlueZ's poor upstream "code-and-forget" approach to maintenance. The devs seem unresponsive and/or indifferent (based on http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/15308/ ). If a distribution's users want this, they're better off developing it themselves and asking the package maintainer to accept it as a package patch, as Fedora has done with this, and the package maintainer is better off making their own decision on the patch rather than waiting for BlueZ to do anything.

So, subscribers/users, register above as "This bug affects me" if you haven't already to encourage the maintainers to make a decision on the attached patches.