[Bug 8007] Joystick name is different to that reported by Windows.

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8007

Richard Corden  changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Richard Corden   2008-12-09 16:36:09 ---
I have been trying to give feed back on a different bug relating to a dual CPU
machine and polling for joystick devices (bug 8765).

Due to this problem, I am still having to patch the wine sources.  I spent some
more time looking at exactly what was taking place in the kernel, and I believe
that the problem is not with the joydev.c, but rather it is with the hid
devices:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=driver...

I don't think this is a bug with either wine or with the kernel, however, the
short answer is that I  need to "hack" wine before I can get this game to run. 
It would not surprise me if other people had similar experiences.

At this point, a possible solution would be to add mapping functionality, so
that the device name returned by the kernel can be mapped to a different
identifier without requiring source code change.

Is something like this feasible?