Moving joydev back into the main modules package

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 12-05-15 03:22, poma wrote:
> On 11.05.2015 20:05, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 11-05-15 18:50, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> This weekend I lost 2 hours figuring out why supertuxkart would not
>>>> recognize a standard logitech usb gamepad.
>>>>
>>>> After 2 hours I found out that the problem is that some games
>>>> need to joydev module to interact with usb-hid devices as
>>>> the use the /dev/js interface rather then the /dev/input/event#
>>>> interface, once I had installed kernel-modules-extras everything
>>>> just worked, the module auto loaded stk recognized the gamepad
>>>> and things just worked (tm) which is what I believe is the
>>>> experience we want to offer ootb.
>>>>
>>>> Therefor I would like to request for the joydev module to be
>>>> moved from kernel-modules-extras into the main kernel-modules
>>>> package.
>>>
>>> A bunch of games use the means we now have to specify a "Requires:
>>> kernel-module(joydev)" style syntax so it doesn't matter where the
>>> module resides (sorry, don't know the exact syntax offhand).
>>
>> I do not think that sprinkling "Requires: kernel-module(joydev)"
>> all over the place for something which is really just core functionality
>> which apps should be able to rely on is a good idea. Esp. not when
>> we are talking about a module which is 6784 bytes on the filesystem.
>>
>> Also these requires have funny side effects, they cause dnf to
>> install kernel-debug rather then kernel-modules-extra when the
>> module is not already present on the system which sorta defeats the
>> purpose.
>>
>
> What rhbz is it?

The one which you are going to create for it ?

Just do: "dnf install joystick-support" on an F-22 system without
kernel-modules-extra installed to reproduce.

Regards,

Hans

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