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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# encoding: UTF-8
# MIT License
#
# Copyright (c) 2025 shkhln
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
# copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
MIN_EXPECTED_ENTRIES = 555
PRINT_NOTES = true
VID_NOPELIST = [
0,
1,
0x0e00, # no idea who's that
0x0fff, # Aopen, Inc.; no known gamepads
0x11ff, # no idea who's that
0x162e, # ditto
0x16d0, # MCS, whatever that means
0x1a34, # ACRUX, ungoogleable
0x20ab, # no idea who's that
0x25b1, # ditto
0x2f24, # ditto
0x7545, # ditto
0x8380, # ditto
0x8888, # ditto
0xd2d2 # ditto
]
if !File.exist?('usb_ids.h')
system('fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libsdl-org/SDL/refs/heads/main/src/joystick/usb_ids.h')
end
if !File.exist?('controller_list.h')
system('fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libsdl-org/SDL/refs/heads/main/src/joystick/controller_list.h')
end
controllers = []
controller_list_header = File.read('controller_list.h')
controller_list_header.scan(/MAKE_CONTROLLER_ID\(\s*0x([0-9a-f]+),\s*0x([0-9a-f]+)\s*\).*?(?:\/\/(.*)|)$/) do
controllers << {vid: $1.to_i(16), pid: $2.to_i(16), note: ($3 ? $3.strip : nil)}
end
vids_by_name = {}
pids_by_name = {}
usb_ids_header = File.read('usb_ids.h')
usb_ids_header.scan(/#define USB_VENDOR_([0-9A-Z_]+)\s+0x([0-9a-f]+)/) do
vids_by_name[$1] = $2.to_i(16)
end
usb_ids_header.scan(/#define USB_PRODUCT_([0-9A-Z_]+)\s+0x([0-9a-f]+)/) do
pids_by_name[$1] = $2.to_i(16)
end
vids_by_name['BDA'] = vids_by_name['POWERA']
vids_by_name['EVORETRO'] = vids_by_name['DRAGONRISE']
vids_by_name['VICTRIX'] = vids_by_name['PDP']
vids_by_name['XBOX'] = vids_by_name['MICROSOFT']
for vendor in vids_by_name.keys
pids_by_name.keys.find_all{|product| product.start_with?(vendor)}.each do |product|
controllers << {vid: vids_by_name[vendor], pid: pids_by_name[product], note: product.delete_prefix(vendor).delete_prefix('_')}
pids_by_name.delete(product)
end
end
if !pids_by_name.empty?
STDERR.puts "#{pids_by_name.size} product ids from usb_ids.h were not assigned to a vendor:"
STDERR.puts "#{pids_by_name.keys.join(', ')}"
STDERR.puts
end
# let's get rid of duplicates after merging entries from controller_list.h with usb_ids.h
controllers.uniq!{|controller| [controller[:vid], controller[:pid]]}
# garbage in, garbage out
controllers.delete_if{|controller| VID_NOPELIST.include?(controller[:vid])}
raise "Found #{controllers.size} controllers, expected at least #{MIN_EXPECTED_ENTRIES}" if controllers.size < MIN_EXPECTED_ENTRIES
def ids_to_regex(ids, width = 4)
raise if !(ids.any?{|id| id.is_a?(String) && id.size == width && id =~ /[0-9a-f]+/})
if width > 1
alternatives = ids.group_by{|id| id[0]}.map{|first_digit, ids| first_digit + ids_to_regex(ids.map{|id| id[1..-1]}, width - 1)}
if alternatives.size == 1
alternatives[0]
else
"(#{alternatives.join('|')})"
end
else
if ids.size == 1
ids[0]
else
"[#{regex_char_class(ids)}]"
end
end
end
def regex_char_class(letters)
out = ''
range_start = nil
letters = letters.sort.uniq
letters.each_cons(2) do |a, b|
if a.ord + 1 == b.ord
range_start = a if !range_start
else
if range_start
if a.ord - range_start.ord > 2
out += "#{range_start}-#{a}"
else
out += (range_start..a).to_a.join
end
range_start = nil
else
out += a
end
end
end
if range_start
if letters[-1].ord - range_start.ord > 2
out += "#{range_start}-#{letters[-1]}"
else
out += (range_start..letters[-1]).to_a.join
end
else
out += letters[-1]
end
out
end
vendors_by_id = vids_by_name.invert.merge({
0x03eb => 'Atmel Corp.',
0x05b8 => 'SYSGRATION', # doesn't look like a gamepad vendor
0x056e => 'Elecom Co., Ltd',
0x0810 => 'Personal Communication Systems, Inc.',
0x0925 => 'Lakeview Research',
0x0d62 => 'Darfon Electronics Corp.', # ?
0x0e8f => 'GreenAsia Inc.',
0x0f30 => 'Jess Technology Co., Ltd',
0x1038 => 'SteelSeries ApS',
0x11c0 => 'Betop', # ?
0x11c9 => 'Nacon',
0x12ab => 'Honey Bee Electronic International Ltd.',
0x1345 => 'Sino Lite Technology Corp',
0x1430 => 'RedOctane',
0x15e4 => 'Numark', # doesn't look like a gamepad vendor
0x1689 => 'Razer USA, Ltd',
0x1bad => 'Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.',
0x2516 => 'Cooler Master Co., Ltd.', # what might that be?
0x25f0 => 'ShanWan' # who?
})
puts '# This config file, including most comments below this one,'
puts '# was generated by https://gist.github.com/shkhln/b39c2f3d609e57d47b7026da2a925aef'
puts '# from SDL\'s source code available at https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL'
puts '# under the terms of Zlib license.'
puts
puts controllers
.sort_by {|controller| [controller[:vid], controller[:pid]]}
.group_by{|controller| controller[:vid]}
.map {|vid, group|
[
("# #{vendors_by_id[vid] || '???'}" if PRINT_NOTES),
(group.map{|controller| '# %#06x %s' % [controller[:pid], controller[:note]]}.join("\n") if PRINT_NOTES),
<<~RULE
notify 100 {
match "system" "USB";
match "subsystem" "INTERFACE";
match "type" "ATTACH";
match "vendor" "#{'%#06x' % vid}";
match "product" "0x#{ids_to_regex(group.map{|controller| '%04x' % controller[:pid]})}";
action "chgrp games /dev/$cdev && chmod g+rw /dev/$cdev";
};
RULE
].compact.join("\n")
}
.join("\n")
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