Moving joydev back into the main modules package

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 05/12/2015 05:07 PM, poma wrote:
> On 12.05.2015 13:55, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 12-05-15 13:48, poma wrote:
>>> On 12.05.2015 09:00, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> 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 ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No problemos, all for your love.
>>>
>>>> Just do: "dnf install joystick-support" on an F-22 system without
>>>> kernel-modules-extra installed to reproduce.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What component, strange thing called dnf, stick of joy, or kernel?
>>
>> Lets start with filing a bug against dnf for this and then see from
>> there.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Hans
>>
>
> dnf - joystick-support - kernel-[debug]
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1220821

Thanks!

Regards,

Hans