[fab] Re: kernel modules in fedora

Christopher Blizzard blizzard at redhat.com
Fri Sep 1 19:31:31 UTC 2006


Tim Burke wrote:
>> Fair enough, Jesse.  Let me rephrase -- whatever else we do or don't 
>> do, we need to enable people to do cool stuff with Fedora, not be an 
>> impediment to them doing it.
>>
>> Insert all the "as long as it's FOSS, etc." stuff here.
>>
>> I think there needs to be a place for kernel modules somewhere in the 
>> "Fedora Universe", that's all I'm saying.
>>
> The first step is ensuring that the mechanisms are in place to allow 
> others in the Fedora universe to build, deliver and hook in their 
> modules.  This is what Jon Masters has been providing support for.  We 
> don't need to actually deliver kernel modules ourselves this way, but 
> neither should we preclude others from doing so.

Is Jon's work documented anywhere?

--Chris




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