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Bug 3504

Summary: Multiple Joysticks Change order every time application (or the joystick subsystem) starts.
Product: SDL Reporter: Rodrigo Cardoso <rodrigo.alfenas>
Component: joystickAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: ASSIGNED --- QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.5   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Mac OS X 10.11   

Description Rodrigo Cardoso 2016-12-01 20:48:15 UTC 
The Problem:
- Connect 2 or more gamepads/joysticks;
- In a SDL app, open all joysticks;
- without connecting or disconnecting anything, restart the app;
- most of the time the order of the devices changed.

Why this happens?
Is that a by-product of the way the backend works?
Is it possible to make sure the order is always the same? (assuming you didnt touch any device, or change ports)
Comment 1 Rodrigo Cardoso 2016-12-01 20:57:30 UTC 
Forgot to mention that, this reordering is very bad because games with custom mappings will switch controllers and make the mappings useless in most cases.