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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=815147

Josh Boyer jwboyer@redhat.com changed:

What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |jkysela@redhat.com Component|kmod |alsa-lib AssignedTo|kmod-maint@lists.fedoraproj |jkysela@redhat.com |ect.org |

--- Comment #5 from Josh Boyer jwboyer@redhat.com 2012-05-02 10:36:44 EDT --- (In reply to comment #4)

I wasn't really hostile, more sarcastic, but there is a reason for that.

Previously we (Fedora/classic RedHat Linux) had a feature which could be easily enabled (mind that other distros enable it by default, but let's forget about that for a second) by editing dist-oss.conf.

Now what you are basically saying - "I don't know any OSS applications that I care for, so users should google how to enable this feature (and master the terminal, su, sudo, modprobe commands), ISP vendors (instead of pointing the user to those files) now _each_ must supply files for /etc/modprobe.d/* (probably causing file conflicts)".

No, that's not really what I was saying, but that's irrelevant.

If you don't feel like adding back those files which used to *belong* to modprobe, I am interested in what other package can accept them.

Possible candidates are: kernel and alsa-lib (very very debatable). Hm. That leaves us with the kernel and kmod. Sorry, with the kernel.

alsa-lib sounds perfectly viable to me. Both conf files are directly related to alsa. We recently added a modprobe conf file to nfs-utils for an NFSv4 related issue.

Let's reassign this there, and I'll create a patch to install it in a proper location.