This repo and steam tarball are out of sync

[kparal]

The udev file in this repo doesn't reflect the udev file present in the official steam tarball:
http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/steam_1.0.0.59.tar.gz

For example, this repo contains this rule:

# This rule is necessary for gamepad emulation; make sure you replace 'pgriffais' with a group that the user that runs Steam belongs to
KERNEL=="uinput", MODE="0660", GROUP="pgriffais", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"

while the tarball contains this rule (more modern):

# Steam Controller udev write access
KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess"

There are more differences. Not only that, even the filenames differ (steam_input.rules vs 60-steam-input.rules and 60-steam-vr.rules).

This causes confusion for distributions, when deciding which udev files to install for the user. I assume this repo was created to have an opensource-friendly license for the udev file and allow PRs. Can you please make sure the files don't get out of sync? (Ideally, the latest content should be pushed here and then used for tarball generation, instead of having two sources). Thank you.

[TTimo]

Thanks. Yep I'll update with the latest steam package rules soon.

[kparal]

Thanks! When you're at it... 😉 this PR really needs to get merged to the udev file:
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4794

I've been debugging why Steam Controller doesn't work on Fedora, and even pestering the Fedora maintainer of the package (rpmfusion/steam#10) and it really boils down to missing OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput". Without it, the uinput module is not loaded automatically and the user permissions are not applied. With a rule like this:

KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", TAG+="uaccess", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"

everything works out of the box (at least on Fedora).

[TTimo]

It's not clear if we can have one set of udev rules that will work on all distributions.

I think that was the original intention of this repository, to let distributions figure how they might want to modify this.

[kparal]

I see, distributions with systemd-udev won't support uaccess, IIUIC. Perhaps a readme file with some hints or clearly marked two different udev files here in repo could help.

[scaronni]

It's not clear if we can have one set of udev rules that will work on all distributions.

I think that was the original intention of this repository, to let distributions figure how they might want to modify this.

Btw, the 60-steam-vr.rules already contain everything with uaccess directly, so I don't see the point of keeping the basic rule set with mode 666. Thanks.

[scaronni]

Thanks. Yep I'll update with the latest steam package rules soon.

@TTimo any chance for the update matching the actual Steam tarball? I have a PR ready. Thanks.