[fab] Kernel Module packages in Core and Extras
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Sun Aug 20 15:27:20 UTC 2006
On Sunday 20 August 2006 07:21, Rahul wrote:
> > - Disallow kmodule-packages in Extras and only integrate some very
> > important modules in the Core kernel package (like the Broadcom-WLAN
> > drivers we merged in FC% or ipw2100 and ipw2200 in FC4)
>
> This really seems the better solution to me. It put the kernel
> maintainers in control of the situation and they need to be in control
> since they are the ones dealing with the bug reports and would be more
> aware of which modules are going upstream etc.
I'm in favor of this too. Prevents the lag between updates in which a user
could be vulnerable to a known kernel flaw, and it keeps our depsolvers and
buildsystems somewhat sane.
--
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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