[Bug 40658] Joystick POW hat switch rotated for JOYDEVDRIVER=(js) while JOYDEVDRIVER=(event) is Ok

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40658

--- Comment #30 from Paul <geoff.pvgn1 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Rémi Bernon from comment #29)
> Regarding the axis mapping, it's indeed not supported anymore. Maybe we
> could restore something like it in the new dinput HID joystick, but I'm not
> sure it's a good idea to do it there, it would be better to have all the
> axis properly mapped in the first place.
> 
> Then SDL already has some sort of mapping for gamepad controllers, and we do
> some evdev to HID mapping in winebus.sys, so maybe it's better to do it
> there. It's not going to be possible to have a per-application mapping in
> that case though.

Right, it didn't take long in my research to figure out there was an axis limit
in most abstraction layers, hence the registry edit removing them from wine's
sight.  I think if I could connect with someone in charge of the driver, that
could be settled.  Seems like a lot of effort for a sim input device, though. 
I'm convinced the proper way should be by masking the useless axes at the
kernel level, but the event nodes make it much more difficult than the old jsX
nodes.

Seems like it's getting more and more difficult to modify things on the
software side to work with flawed hardware, which exists in the world, and must
be tolerated at times.  I remember conversations like this when the first
modern touchscreens came out.

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