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Summary: Review Request: sysprof-kmod - kernel module for the sysprof profiler
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191745
------- Additional Comments From fedora@leemhuis.info 2006-07-21 02:05 EST ------- (In reply to comment #6)
My opinion is that this particular package does not really fall into the picture covered by the guidelines: this is not a driver, it's a (small) module which is exposing CPU sampling data for the GUI to show.
The main reason for this extras-work is that we want to tell everyone: "Get your shit into the kernel soon, that the proper place for it. kmod are only a interim solution" (sorry, sounds a bit harsh, but I think these words describe the situation well).
In the begining we even considered rules like "kmods are only allowed for 18 months in Extras -- that should be enough time to get stuff upstream (e.g. into the kernel)"