[fab] kernel modules

[Rahul]

Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

The problem is that if bugs are filed against the kernel with third 
party kernel modules loaded, it might be caused by the additional 
modules. The core kernel team doesnt want to deal with bug reports tha 
might be caused by third party modules regardless of whether the source 
is available or not and the usual response is for them to unload the 
module and try to reproduce the problem.

If Fedora Extras includes kernel modules and the core kernel team would 
want them to be unloaded first before any bug reports are filed then 
that looks schizophrenic.

Rahul