diff --git a/tools/libinput-record.c b/tools/libinput-record.c
index c1b20ef6..0c1dc9cf 100644
--- a/tools/libinput-record.c
+++ b/tools/libinput-record.c
@@ -1757,6 +1757,16 @@ print_udev_properties(struct record_device *dev)
 		entry = udev_list_entry_get_next(entry);
 	}
 
+	for (struct udev_device *parent = udev_device;
+	     parent;
+	     parent = udev_device_get_parent(parent)) {
+		const char *driver = udev_device_get_property_value(parent, "DRIVER");
+		if (driver) {
+			iprintf(dev->fp, I_UDEV_DATA, "- DRIVER=%s\n", driver);
+			break;
+		}
+	}
+
 out:
 	udev_device_unref(udev_device);
 	udev_unref(udev);
diff --git a/tools/libinput-replay.py b/tools/libinput-replay.py
index c24cb8ca..85da4006 100755
--- a/tools/libinput-replay.py
+++ b/tools/libinput-replay.py
@@ -71,14 +71,13 @@ def check_udev_properties(yaml_data, uinput):
     """
     yaml_udev_section = fetch(yaml_data, "udev")
     yaml_udev_props = fetch(yaml_udev_section, "properties")
+
+    ignore = ["LIBINPUT_DEVICE_GROUP", "DRIVER"]
     yaml_props = {
-        k: v for (k, v) in [prop.split("=", maxsplit=1) for prop in yaml_udev_props]
+        k: v
+        for (k, v) in [prop.split("=", maxsplit=1) for prop in yaml_udev_props]
+        if k not in ignore
     }
-    try:
-        # We don't assign this one to virtual devices
-        del yaml_props["LIBINPUT_DEVICE_GROUP"]
-    except KeyError:
-        pass
 
     # give udev some time to catch up
     time.sleep(0.2)