Why are DVB modules missing from kernels newer than FC2 GA?

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:55, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:04:02PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > IIRC, it was disabled in late May due to severe code quality concerns. 
> > Yell at upstream to fix it, or build it yourself and use at your own risk.
> 
> Without consultation, without consideration to existing users (who now have
> to use -358 with all the other known holes) and without putting it in the
> changelog ?
> 
> Are you sure ?
> 
> Alan

Yeah, I think it would be preferable as well if kernel updates didn't
add/remove modules unless it's a real need or bonus.  In the latest
updates pwc.ko got added as well, which was not in FC2, and then
packagers have to resort to silly hacks (in my case, make a copy of the
kernel module installed in an updates/ path to the kernel modules path
as pwc-update.ko since the module scripts currently don't check for
updates/ correctly as in 2.4).

So, in general, having a heads-up of stuff to be added or removed from
the kernel would be nice.  And I don't think that removing a module due
to upstream code not being nice enough is a good enough reason; if you
didn't think it was a problem or missed it for the FC2 release, I doubt
the code will have gotten much worse by the time of the updated kernel
release.

Unless there's a critical bug, it's nicer for all involved if the
problem is just lived with until the next major milestone.

Thomas

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