[Bug 202528] Review Request: rt2x00-kmod

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Summary: Review Request: rt2x00-kmod


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=202528





------- Additional Comments From jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org  2006-10-19 17:07 EST -------
(In reply to comment #12)
> Updated rt2x00-kmod from Ville Skyttä example (madwifi).
> It seems to be a quite clean compilation! 
> 
> %prep
> Setup ...
> grep -rlF '<linux/config.h>' acerhk-%{version} \
> | xargs sed -i -e 's|<linux/config.h>|<linux/autoconf.h>|' 
> 
> Any idea when this kmod package will be accepted on extras?

A few things bother me about this package.  It's not just shipping a driver for
rt2x00 hardware.  It's shipping a whole new 802.11 network stack that isn't
included upstream yet.  I would really like to see the dscape stack broken out
into a separate kmod package at the very least.

Also, the README file explicitly states that compiling against Fedora kernels is
problematic.  Fixing the problems requires a non-trivial understanding of both
the device driver, and the generic kernel code it's calling.  The upstream
developers will not even provide compilation steps for this.  Do you, ask the
packager, have the knowledge to either fix these issues as they arise, or work
with upstream to get the resolved quickly?  Because if not, this package is
doomed to lag behind and users will not be able to update their kernels, etc.  

The README also goes as far as to suggest complaining to the Fedora developers.
 That is most certainly not the right thing to do.

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