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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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" _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
