After disconnecting a joystick the remaining kept their original device index.
This was not correct because the device index must be a number between 0 and
SDL_NumJoysticks(). It was fixed with ideas from SDL's joystick implementation
for Android. Some range checks were removed as the caller already checks them.
SDL_SYS_JoystickUpdate() was implemented incorrectly. For every call to it all
attached joysticks were checked. But actually only the given SDL_Joystick should
be checked then. This allowed sending broken events for attached but not opened
joysticks. It also checked the opened joysticks more often than actually needed.
The callbacks used to receive the HTML events were not removed if the joystick
subsystem initialization failed or if the joystick subsystem was quit. Also, the
already connected joysticks were not deleted if the initialization failed later.
SDL_JOYDEVICEADDED events must contain the device index which is a value between
0 and the number of connected joysticks. The old implementation included a value
based on the instance id instead. It worked in some cases because the values are
similar initially. But after disconnecting joysticks this is no more the case
and the always increasing instance id becomes larger than number of joysticks.
Jonas Kulla
The configure script didn't differentiate between Linux and Android, unconditionally compiling in the unix implementation of SDL_sysfilesystem.c.
I'm probably one of the very few people building SDL for android using classic configure + standalone toolchain, so this has gone undetected all along.