We currently have two different code paths for initializing controllers:
Either the frontend (DolphinQt) can do it, or if the frontend doesn't do
it, the core will do it automatically when booting. Having these two
paths has caused problems in the past due to only one frontend being
tested (see de7ef47548). I would like to get rid of the latter path to
avoid further problems like this.
If libusb fails to initialize, an assertion fails, but if that happens before the main window is created, then Dolphin just dies. Now, the panic alert is properly shown and the user can ignore it.
We don't have a timeout like this on other platforms, and it doesn't
accomplish anything useful as far as I can tell. If you trigger it,
all that happens is that you don't get a working game and also can't
press Exit Emulation without Dolphin hanging (stuck in Core::Shutdown).
Fixes a crash that could occur if the static constructor function for
the MainSettings.cpp TU happened to run before the variables in
Common/Version.cpp are initialised. (This is known as the static
initialisation order fiasco.)
By using wrapper functions, those variables are now guaranteed to be
constructed on first use.
This replaces the MAX_LOGLEVEL define with a constexpr variable
in order to fix self-comparison warnings in the logging macros
when compiling with Clang. (Without this change, the log level check
in the logging macros is expanded into something like this:
`if (LINFO <= LINFO)`, which triggers a tautological compare warning.)
SPDX standardizes how source code conveys its copyright and licensing
information. See https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/1-rationale/ . SPDX
tags are adopted in many large projects, including things like the Linux
kernel.