OffList: Whats with the petty Open Source Pureness that has killed PWCX

[Axel Thimm]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 12:05:08PM -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 12:12:54 +0200, Arjan van de Ven
> <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl> wrote:
> > I mean; the guy demanded his driver to be removed from Linus' tree. We
> > might just put the driver back for fedora. We don't know yet.
> 
> 
> I've taken this off-list because i don't want my suggestion to be a
> launching point for Axel or someone for ranting.

Looks like it's on-list, but I'll keep from ranting this time ;)

> If you decide to re-include this driver in fedora core even though its
> not in the mainline tree, I would like to suggest that this driver be
> maintained as a seperate add-on module package inside Core and not as
> a patch to the kernel. I'm sure doing that has some down-sides in
> terms of package maintainance, but i think having at least one example
> of a seperate kernel module package in Core would be useful as a some
> what authoritive reference to people creating add-on kernel modules in
> Extras.
> 
> Either way its just a suggestion, in the hopes of making some headway
> in the never ending kernel-modules packaging issues.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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