Re: [Flightgear-devel] Reload joystick config

[Csaba H. <csa...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:02 AM, James Turner <zak...@ma...> wrote:
>
> On 28 Jan 2011, at 08:21, Andreas Gaeb wrote:
>
>> In the meantime I played around with this a little and came up with the
>> attached patch which does what I describe above. This seems to work,
>> though I didn't do any checks to rule out the suspected issues.
>
> Looks good to me, from a visual inspection. I'll apply over the weekend, and poke some people to test. Depending on when 2.2.0 happens this might even be worth back-porting, but we should wait for some positive testing feedback before that.

Since FG currently irreversibly loses joystick if it ever gets
unplugged and replugged (or if the usb driver reconnects for some
reason), and this patch allows for reinitializing the joystick, I
certainly vote to get this into the release.

Thanks Andreas!

-- 
Csaba/Jester