Magnus Bjerke Vik
This causes issues when for instance using the joystick API to make an Android phone rotate an object by rotating the phone. When the absolute value of an axis reported by android is larger than earth gravity, SDL will overflow the Sint16 value used for joystick axes, causing sporadic movements when close to the gravity. Just holding the phone so that e.g. Y points directly upwards will make it unstable, and even more if you just tap the phone gently from below (increasing the acceleration).
More detailed: SDLActivity gets the accelerometer values in onSensorChanged and divides each axis by earth gravity. SDL_SYS_JoystickUpdate takes each of the axis values, multiplies them by 32767.0 (largest Sint16), and the casts them to Sint16. From this you can see that any value from Android that exceeds earth gravity will overflow the joystick axis.
A fix is to clamp the values so that they won't overflow the Sint16.
Joe Thompson
This is a regression. The changes to fix#2460 cause the EnumJoysticksCallback() function to return without adding devices (Line 345 in SDL-0a2b6bc7005f\src\joystick\windows\SDL_dinputjoystick.c).
Looking at dinput.h on my system, at least DI8DEVTYPE_DRIVING and DI8DEVTYPE_FLIGHT need to be added to the test.
It might be better to check if (devtype == DI8DEVTYPE_SUPPLEMENTAL) rather than checking if it is NOT EQUAL to a long list of types. Or check if the device is already in the list.
This apparently has fallout: the PS4 (and maybe PS3?) controllers apparently
report some bogus axes, but it won't change the axes we currently expect, and
thus the game controller config string is still stable.
Fixes Bugzilla #2719.
Since all device detection/removal happens on the main thread now, post events inline with when the status changes occur.
Also fixed rare cases when joystick API functions could return data about removed joysticks when called with a device index.
An existing hint lets apps that don't need the timer resolution changed avoid
this, to save battery, etc, but this fixes several problems in timing, audio
callbacks not firing fast enough, etc.
Fixes Bugzilla #2944.
