Moving joydev back into the main modules package

[Peter Robinson]

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).

Peter