kmods poll

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:12 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > 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*

And a bunch of drivers too. I remember the USB DSL drivers around FC4
timeframe, because the complexity of setting that crap up in FC3
offended me so much. PlayStation 3 support in F7. There's _plenty_ of
stuff we've shipped in our main kernel package because it's _almost_
upstream and it's (almost) good enough. There's no need to package them
separately¹ -- either we're willing to ship and support them, or we
aren't. 

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

Is squashfs not headed upstream? Obviously Xen was and is a massive
fscking abortion, but I don't think anyone's holding that up as a
shining example of how we should do stuff -- quite the opposite, in
fact.

-- 
dwmw2

¹ Except for the illegal crap like nVidia and ATI drivers, but those aren't
relevant to this particular discussion anyway.