forked from unom/punktfunk
pf-xusb pumped the sealed-channel bootstrap mailbox — an open+map+close+ unmap plus two heap allocs — on EVERY XInput IOCTL, per pad. A periodic WDF timer (the pf-gamepad pattern) now owns the pump: adoption, re-delivery and host-gone detection happen there, and the IOCTL path reads the cached view. A vanished host still reads as a neutral pad within one 8 ms tick, and the heartbeat mark still advances per serviced IOCTL, so the host keeps seeing the GAME-visible polling path move. Both pad drivers' log() also called OutputDebugStringA unconditionally — a syscall + CString + format! alloc per logged event in RELEASE builds, on per-IOCTL paths (SET_STATE hex dumps during rumble, the cyclic GET_STRING polls). The whole logger now rides the existing file_log_enabled() gate (debug builds, or PF*_DEBUG_LOG), and dbglog! skips its format! too. (pf-gamepad's identical log shape is deliberately untouched: the unpushed fix/deck-hid-identity branch owns that file right now.) Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>