On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:48:05PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 14:34 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> An argument against adopting kmdls presented by Thorsten Leemhuis is
> that
>
> * it's too late now to fix it, we should live on with kmod bugs for
> RHEL5's life-cycle (ending 2012 ...)
>
> * too many packages for kmod are written (but actually there is only one
> in Fedora Extras 5, the rest is pending or in other repos and if
> other repos count, then ATrpms has several dozens of kmdls :)
I think this argument is invalid. We should ban _all_ module packages
from Core and Extras anyway.
That's a valid viewpoint. Assuming Fedora Core/Extras indeed bans all
external kernel module packages, does it have the authority/interest
to maintain a kernel module packaging guide? If not who should?
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