kmods poll

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:39 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 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

I think it's been tried twice now.  The first time, there were
legitimate review issues.  The second time was mostly people whining
about pointless crap.  I think Philip lost interest after that.

josh