Kernel Modules in Fedora -x
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 7 18:01:56 UTC 2007
Les Mikesell wrote:
> What I'm looking for from this discussion is a definition of the target
> audience for fedora.
I remember pointing out this to you atleast twice but see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives
Nobody expects perfection, but is there really an
> audience that doesn't care if their devices stop working or not?
Don't confuse robustness with ABI breakage.
> There have been large chunks of time that it hasn't worked or disks
> wouldn't be recognized even if it saw a raw IEEE device. I gave up and
> switched the machines that needed it to Centos with the centosplus
> kernel so I don't know the current state except that I've seen comments
> about a complete rewrite coming so it must still leave something to be
> desired
The rewrite is already in Fedora 7 (and will be in RHEL 5.1).
Rahul
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