Moving joydev back into the main modules package

[Bastien Nocera]

It should have read/write permissions assigned to the current seat.

----- Original Message -----
> 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 ?
> > 
> > Just do: "dnf install joystick-support" on an F-22 system without
> > kernel-modules-extra installed to reproduce.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Hans
> 
> In that context, may I ask, if /dev/js* still has to be world readable?
> 
> /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules:SUBSYSTEM=="input",
> KERNEL=="js[0-9]*",
> MODE="0664"
> 
> 
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