Comment 15 for bug 1332444

> # udevadm info --name=input/event12
> [...]
> E: ID_INPUT_JOYSTICK=1

Err, that's what we want to achieve.. I suppose you have some local udev rule which attaches that property to the pedals, so that it works for you?

> capabilities/ev raw kernel attribute: 9

That means it's capable of sending ABS and SYN events, not that surprising.

> capabilities/abs raw kernel attribute: 23

== ABS_X, ABS_Y, ABS_RZ

I was hoping that the device would be capable of something distinct like ABS_THROTTLE, ABS_RUDDER, ABS_WHEEL, ABS_GAS, or ABS_BRAKE. I'm afraid I don't really know what ABS_RZ is supposed to mean, the official documentation (https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/input/event-codes.txt) does not mention it and googling for it doesn't help much either.

However, touch screens, touchpads, and accelerometers do *not* use all these "fancy" axes, they really are quite unique to joysticks and similar game controllers.