On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 02:10:21PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > I think that fix is simple -- I don't think ssb should
have been in
> > that list in the first place.
>
> SSB was something we marked as 'why is this enabled at all??', so we
> went with the 'safe' route of moving it first.
>
The ssb module is needed for b44 (wired) and b43 (wireless) drivers to
function properly. That needs to get added back.
Erm, ok. Except John said he turned it off in whatever he was working
on, so... I guess? :) I fixed it in git.
As an aside, this is also why I have a line in the TODO file to tie the
list into Kconfig instead of a manually generated list. That way we
don't miss stuff like this.
> > So that brings me to the first big concern... Should we
have _any_
> > hardware enablement included in the modules-extra package? If so,
> > what is the cut-off? Do we really want to diminish our out-of-the-box
> > hardware support for whatever benefit modules-extra provides?
> > Is there SMOLT data or something similar to justify the list of
> > modules being moved?
>
> Nope, no smolt data.
>
That is a bit troubling. I definitely want as much hardware support as
possible to be available in Fedora. I am particularly focused on
networking, so hopefully we do not move any reasonable wires or wireless
drivers out (which is essentially what happened when ssb was moved out).
We pretty much left the network _hardware_ drivers alone. The ssb thing
was unintentional.
josh