Kernel Modules in Fedora -x

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 20:34:18 UTC 2007


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 16:31:06 -0400
"Mark Bidewell" <mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:

> One thing that concerns me (or I am not clear on what is being
> proposed) is that if out-of-tree drivers are merged with the kernel
> package, we will have a distro that works with the stock kernel but
> drop in a custom kernel and suddenly everything breaks.

How is that different from today?  Unless you build those out of tree
kmod packages against your custom kernel, they'll go boom.

But if they're in the kernel package, and you customize your kernel
based on that package, you'll get those mods you want for free.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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