Why do kmods automatically depend on kmod-common?

Hi there! I'm trying to package the zaptel drivers for RPMFusion. I ran into the problem that zaptel (which is in Fedora) removed it's "Provides: zaptel-kmod-common" in late 2006. Now, of course, there are dependency problems when trying to install the kmod. Is it absolutely necessary to depend on kmod-common or can this be deactivated somewhere in the spec? Or should I contact the Maintainer of zaptel in Fedora and ask him to provide zaptel-kmod-common within his package again? Felix