Generic PlayStation patches. Those that were revoked by the sages.

Usage

Having to patch a file and build a entire kernel is a medium-level of knowledge to the majority of users.
But choosing which file to compile is a hard task. And that is what this repository is for.

Dependencies

In the middle of the repository journey, most of the systems will have a automated install.
But this day is most likely to happen very far from now. So, consider having the following:

Package	URL
git	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/git/
gcc	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/
make	https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/make/

It is necessary the usage of kernel headers. Each distribution have a different package.
They can also be manually compiled. See this.

Optional: Other C compilers can be used too, but keep in mind that your kernel NEED to be compiled by the same provided compiler.

Compiling

Tip: "su -c" can be your root manager, sudo, doas, or another...
Just remember that you need to remove the quote marks (") from every given "su -c" command.

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/SimplyCEO/generikit-hid-sony.git
cd generikit-hid-sony/

Using DKMS:

su -c "sh dkms-install.sh"

Manually compiling:

make && su -c "make install clean"

Remove the older driver in order to load the generikit one:

printf "blacklist hid-sony\n" | su -c "tee /etc/modprobe.d/generikit.conf"

To load the original driver, unload generikit-hid-sony and load hid-sony:

su -c "modprobe --remove generikit-hid-sony"
su -c "modprobe hid-sony"

To return the generikit driver, do the other way around.

Removing

Using DKMS:

su -c "sh dkms-remove.sh"

Inspiration

One time this patch got revoked by the zen-kernel programmers.
Just like they said:

"I'd really prefer we don't add code for fakes."

Even knowing it is generic, the device continue being a device.

Contribution

You are more than welcome to submit a fix that got revoked by the team.
If your fix has bugs in some architecture, consider putting a description in the warning.txt file.

All the contribution should be directly sent to the devel branch.

git checkout devel

References

My first closed pull request, a concept of what the project become.
PS3 generic controller forum discussion... huge thanks to doug and b3n!