Just FYI, kmod's got always low priority from FESCO. The usual
answer for kmods reviews are "why not kmod is added in upstream kernel
yet?"
I struggled a lot to get first spca5xx kmod in Fedora but failed as
no one dare to review it. Then after it got considered as unsuccessful
attempt, I tried on submitting gspca kmod. After much struggle I got
KMOD_APPROVED on gspca-kmod package review. But then no one dare to
review it even after I showed my willingness to maintain it for each
kernel release in rawhide and with such unfortunate happened things, I
decided to CLOSE my own package reviews for gspca kmod.
I feel really bad for that. I am sure many peoples like to have some
of the under development kmods in Fedora. I often used to get request
from peoples about what happened to webcam kmods like gspca I tried to
add in Fedora.
Today also I got query for available webcam drivers in Fedora and
RHEL, but unfortunately people now need to compromise on webcams for
available webcam kmods in kernel. There are few webcam kmods which
are, though under development but working well and their upstream is
prompt to release updates for newer kernels. These kmods supports most
of new webcams.
But still we are not having those kmods approved in Fedora atleast.
Is this in need to be reviewed by the board or more waiting for
a package review? I'd love to see gspca upstream, but also
a kmod rpm would be superb.
Also while kmods have many problems, I think we'll continue to see
use cases for them, so getting through the pain of maintaining them
does build up useful infrastructure.
Last time I checked, building kmod rpms needed too many additional
requirements, so I decided to stay at "make; make install" for each
new kernel for my own machine.
regards,
Florian La Roche