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(a)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