On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:55 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:01 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or
> nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation
> or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but
> rather on the idea of having kernel modules as separate packages in
> general.
Absolutely not, ever.
> If you're against the general idea and want to follow up with reasons
> why that's fine.
If it's good enough for Fedora to ship and support, we can put it in the
main kernel package. Besides; if it's good enough for Fedora to ship and
Which is something I suggested later in this thread.
And if it isn't good enough for upstream to ship and support, why
in
$DEITY's name would we want to ship it, again?
*cough* squashfs *cough cough* wireless-dev *cough* CFS *cough hack* xen
*cough*
Ok, out of those really only squashfs and xen aren't immediately headed
towards some kind of upstream inclusion.
josh