Josh Boyer wrote:
> I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or
> nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation
> or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but rather
> on the idea of having kernel modules as separate packages in general.
>
> If you're against the general idea and want to follow up with reasons
> why that's fine. I just want to avoid implementation discussions at the
> moment if possible.
>
Yay, mainly due to my recent issue with kqemu. There are many useful kernel modules that are not in mainline for any number of reasons. Barring the usual license issues and guidelines, I don't think there has to be a reason kmods are not in Fedora if they are not headed upstream. I think the goal should be kernel inclusion of course and my concern would be that projects get lazy - "Don't worry about clearing the code with akpm, Fedora/we will just create a kmod for it".
The technical arguments may of course weigh heavily against it - I'm all to aware of dep issues as I already use kmods from an external repo.
Regards
Chris