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(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 ?
>>>
>>
>> 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