Re: DirectInput joystick driver's XInput detection broken on Windows 10 Anniversary Update

On 08/04/2016 02:35 AM, Mikkel Krautz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We use the XInput detection code from SDL's DirectInput joystick code
> in Mumble (https://www.mumble.info).
>
> This is the code I am talking about:
> https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/e8281b14970c/src/joystick/windows/SDL_dinputjoystick.c#l238
>
> We just received a bug report that the detection is broken on Windows
> 10 Anniversary Update (1607):
> https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/issues/2483
>
> I debugged it for a bit, and it doesn't seem like the "IG_" check
> works anymore when using the anniversary update. The "IG_" check is
> this:
> https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/e8281b14970c/src/joystick/windows/SDL_dinputjoystick.c#l296
>
> For now, we've worked around the issue by adding GUIDs for
> wired/wireless/bluetooth Xbox One controllers to the list of well
> known XInput devices:
>
> https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/pull/2484
>
> This works around the issue for people using Xbox One controllers.
>
> If there is any interest, feel free to copy the GUIDs from the PR
> above into SDL, under SDL's MIT license.

SDL uses zlib licence, not MIT license ;)

>
> Thanks,
> Mikkel

Cheers,
Daniel