Copter: booster output respects safety switch #9271
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Copter-3.6 (and higher) support a "booster" motor for multicopters (blog). These are configured by setting SERVOx_FUNCTION to 81 (boost_throttle) and then setting MOT_BOOST_SCALE to a postive number from 0 to 1.
This PR enables the output to the booster to reflect the safety switch instead of enabling it along with other "auxiliary" outputs (used for gimbals, etc).
This has been tested on an mRobotics Pixhawk1 under NuttX:
This item was reported in this Copter-3.6 beta testing thread.
P.S. I'm not totally overjoyed with the complexity of implementing the get_motor_mask() in the AP_MotorsMulticopter class and then calling it from all the children. I considered two other alternatives before implementing it this way: