Plan for tomorrows (20070726) FESCO meeting

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 09:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Another issue I would like FESco to look at is the current somewhat grey state 
> of kmod's I'm considering packaging kmod's for uvc (usb video class driver), 
> lirc and islsm (prism54 softmac driver, which is in F-7, but no longer in 
> rawhide). But before I invest time in these I would first like to have the 
> state of kmod's cleared up. I will try to work with there resp. upstreams to 
> get them in the upstream kernel, and atleast for uvc and islsm upstream merger 
> is planned already. 

I would still like to see kmod packages entirely deprecated in Fedora.

If you want to maintain that kernel code and ship it with the 'Fedora'
brand on it, why don't we just give you commit access to the kernel
package? We can trust you to limit yourself to just those areas, and we
can trivially disable your patch(es) if it gets in the way of progress.

We've done precisely that kind of thing before (including for bcm43xx
before that got merged). There's just no need for separate packages.

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dwmw2