HID: playstation: Center initial joystick axes to prevent spurious events

When a new PlayStation gamepad (DualShock 4 or DualSense) is initialized,
the input subsystem sets the default value for its absolute axes (e.g.,
ABS_X, ABS_Y) to 0.

However, the hardware's actual neutral/resting state for these joysticks
is 128 (0x80). This creates a mismatch.

When the first HID report arrives from the device, the driver sees the
resting value of 128. The kernel compares this to its initial state of 0
and incorrectly interprets this as a delta (0 -> 128). Consequently, it
generates EV_ABS events for this initial, non-existent movement.

This behavior can fail userspace 'sanity check' tests (e.g., in
Android CTS) that correctly assert no motion events should be generated
from a device that is already at rest.

This patch fixes the issue by explicitly setting the initial value of the
main joystick axes (e.g., ABS_X, ABS_Y, ABS_RX, ABS_RY) to 128 (0x80)
in the common ps_gamepad_create() function.

This aligns the kernel's initial state with the hardware's expected
neutral state, ensuring that the first report (at 128) produces no
delta and thus, no spurious event.

Signed-off-by: Siarhei Vishniakou <svv@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>

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