From b84625ee73c35f5a6739ec6d05beb0abdae782ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhaofeng Li <hello@zhaofeng.li>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 23:45:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] steam: Disable udev-based joystick discovery for SDL2

Fixes #101281.
---
 pkgs/games/steam/fhsenv.nix | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pkgs/games/steam/fhsenv.nix b/pkgs/games/steam/fhsenv.nix
index f32f46f1f145..78877c8b0d8a 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/steam/fhsenv.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/steam/fhsenv.nix
@@ -227,6 +227,14 @@ in buildFHSUserEnv rec {
         export TZ="$new_TZ"
       fi
     fi
+
+    # udev event notifications don't work reliably inside containers.
+    # SDL2 already tries to automatically detect flatpak and pressure-vessel
+    # and falls back to inotify-based discovery [1]. We make SDL2 do the
+    # same by telling it explicitly.
+    #
+    # [1] <https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/commit/8e2746cfb6e1f1a1da5088241a1440fd2535e321>
+    export SDL_JOYSTICK_DISABLE_UDEV=1
   '' + extraProfile;
 
   runScript = writeScript "steam-wrapper.sh" ''