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Bug 4943

Summary: Linux: allow for custom joystick names
Product: SDL Reporter: Paul Cercueil <paul>
Component: joystickAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2 CC: sezeroz
Version: HG 1.2   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: Patch to fix the issue

Description Paul Cercueil 2020-01-13 18:12:54 UTC 
Created attachment 4159 [details]
Patch to fix the issue

When not using the old Linux input event interface, SDL parses the
name of a device to know what it's capable of. It expects the
name to match the following string: "Analog %d-axis %d-button %d-hat".

This patch allows to use devices with a custom name.
For instance: "My Joystick Device (Analog 2-axis 6-button 2-hat).
Comment 1 Ozkan Sezer 2020-09-22 02:07:58 UTC 
This patch is in. Thanks.
http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/51ab3997c255