ce (a Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D joystick), attempts to read the
Configuration string cause the device to stop responding to Control
requests.

This patch (as1226) adds a quirks flag, telling the kernel not to
read a device's Configuration or Interface strings, together with a
new quirk for the offending joystick.

Reported-by: Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Melchior FRANZ <melchior.franz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>  [2.6.28 and 2.6.29, nothing earlier]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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