kmods poll

[Jarod Wilson]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Josh Boyer wrote:
>>> I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or
>>> nay for kmods.  And I'm not talking about their current implementation
>>> or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but rather
>>> on the idea of having kernel modules as separate packages in general.
>>>
>>> If you're against the general idea and want to follow up with reasons
>>> why that's fine.  I just want to avoid implementation discussions at the
>>> moment if possible.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure where I stand, on one hand I would love to see something 
>> like the UVC driver to be in a kmod until merged upstream, to add 
>> support for recent webcams.
>>
>> OTOH, maintaining kmods and especially keeping the repo depsolving 
>> 100% with them may be a pain.
>>
>> I think that atleast we need a rule that if it isn't heading upstream, 
>> there need to be real good reasons to have it in Fedora, if it is 
>> heading upstream I think providing a kmod for a while as a service 
>> might be a good idea.
>>
>> Does anyone know for example why the lirc kernel module
> 
> Modules. There are a TON of 'em.
> 
>> has never gone upstream?
> 
> Christoph Bartelmus seemed to have very little interest in getting 
> things upstream, but *just* posted a "Help Wanted" email to the lirc 
> mailing list on the 16th. Excerpted from that:
> 
> ----8<----
> 3. kernel module clean-up: the final goal should be a kernel
> integration, but there a several fine-grain steps inbetween, like
> correct usage of __init, __exit, remove all compile time dependancies,
> enable support for more than one serial port at a time in lirc_serial,
> remove 2.4 compatibility code, etc.
> ----8<----

Minor correction: Christoph said a few years back he had no problem if 
someone wanted to work on integrating the drivers into the kernel, but 
didn't have the time to tackle it himself.

Hm... So I may have just found a(nother) pet project...

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Jarod Wilson
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