On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:06 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:32:25 -0700,
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
> NVIDIA and ATI are the major use case for MDV (and, frankly, for RPM
> Fusion), so I came around to the view that it isn't really a good idea
> to have kmods or DKMS in Fedora; the major use case for them doesn't
> apply to Fedora and never will, and the other objections are pretty
> valid for all the other cases for which DKMS / kmods can be used (either
> this stuff should go straight into the kernel or we should not ship it).
> And the pain involved in keeping the pre-built binaries in sync with the
> kernel is significant.
If you use telephony hardware you also have this problem as Digium doesn't
want to upstream Dahdi / Zaptel so they can sell custom versions of
the kernel drivers under different licenses.
That is, indeed, a problem.
And no one else seems to have
enough interest to fork the project and get it upstreamed.
That would appear to be the correct solution :)
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