http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18424
--- Comment #46 from Jonas Maebe jonas.bugzilla@gmail.com 2011-06-17 07:37:41 CDT --- (In reply to comment #45)
..apologies, I wasn't precisely clear about this -- IL-2 doesn't declare whether a HID is available or not - what I should've said was that previously (without the patch) IL-2 wasn't seeing any HID *data* ; with the patch, it does....
Ah, I see. That's indeed progress then.
PS, regarding DOSBox: it probably uses SDL for its joystick input, and SDL does not use DirectInput. Instead, it uses functions such as joyGetNumDevs() from winmm. That dll is implemented in wine, but as far as I can tell it depends on joystick-specific drivers to provide the actual support. I guess that's the "direct serial connection" support mentioned in earlier messages. So it's normal that my patch does not change anything about that.