[fab] kernel modules

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Tue Sep 19 20:08:14 UTC 2006


>>>>> "R" == Rahul  <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> writes:

R> There is certainly a difference between users grabbing packages
R> from third party repositories vs including them in Fedora Extras.
R> If we include anything in the formal Fedora repositories , we need
R> to accept the responsibility to support it properly.

Yes, as with any other package.

R> If Kernel modules are included in extras, the core kernel team
R> needs to be able to debug any issues and work with them.

I just don't see why that would be the case.  Nobody is asking for the
kernel team to find and fix bugs in external modules.

 - J<




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