kmods poll

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:55 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:01 -0500, 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.
> 
> Absolutely not, ever.
> 
> > If you're against the general idea and want to follow up with reasons
> > why that's fine. 
> 
> If it's good enough for Fedora to ship and support, we can put it in the
> main kernel package. Besides; if it's good enough for Fedora to ship and

Which is something I suggested later in this thread.

> And if it isn't good enough for upstream to ship and support, why in
> $DEITY's name would we want to ship it, again?

*cough* squashfs *cough cough* wireless-dev *cough* CFS *cough hack* xen
*cough*

Ok, out of those really only squashfs and xen aren't immediately headed
towards some kind of upstream inclusion.

josh