Successfully sending out the extra buttons

[ahungry]

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[ahungry]

Is it possible to incorporate this third party controller? It's identification crosses over into the domain of first party controllers, however it ships with 8 additional buttons, which, while mapped via a special app, still seem to send the distinct button data - I was going to make a thin driver for it (I just did for bluetooth, and wanted to make one for dongle, which this PR works with) - however xpad makes it difficult to have my driver take precedence due to the colliding vendor id/product ids.

I think I might be able to form a workaround using something like:

cat /etc/depmod.d/xpad.conf
override xpad * updates

but I'm not entirely sure of the syntax (I found this snippet for having a source installed dkms xpad take greater precedence than the built in one, but in this case, I would want a module named something like "vader3d" to take precedence over xpad).

[ahungry]

Actually, I don't think depmod can allow differently named modules to supersede each other (only same name ones).

What's interesting is this works perfect (extra buttons + rumble) if the module name is "xpad" - if I change the module name to something like "vader3d" the rumble stops working ("Function not implemented" in fftest) - does anyone know if "fftest" has some hard coded exceptions to force rumble data if the driver is xpad?

I've diffed the files, and they are identical (other than the .name in the driver data) - and it only reliably rumbles if the name is "xpad", despite everything else being the same.

[krasmazov483]

Currently the best way this PR works as it is inside Steam is by downloading controller configurations made by other users for controllers with pads, like Xbox Elite or Steam Deck configs. This way the paddles work correctly, but you can't remap it yourself in the UI.

Maybe mocking a Xbox Elite controller in xpad could enable the back buttons to be remapped in Steam? Since it seems to work according to this issue on your Bluetooth driver for the controller: ahungry/vader3#2

It would probably need to match the paddles to the same BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPY used by the Elite controller. Also, if it ends up being a good option, wouldn't it be better to do this in xone instead of xpad?