Moving joydev back into the main modules package

[Hans de Goede]

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.

Regards,

Hans