Re: Patch to fix the Linux 2.2 joysitck interface

[Alexandre Julliard]

David Hagood  writes:
> To be done: the file descriptor is never closed under normal 
> circumstances - this might be a problem if a Wine app is opened and 
> accesses the stick, as the file descriptor will be open until that 
> process terminates. If this is viewed as a problem, it would be a simple 
> matter to add a device close function to the Wine driver to close the FD.

Shouldn't this be done in the driver DRV_OPEN/DRV_CLOSE calls then?
Any joystick experts out there?

(BTW please use diff -u to generate patches, the default diff format
is unreadable).