On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:44:47PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:53:20PM -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > 1. If it's okay for RH to put nonstandard kernels into Fedora, then > > shouldn't it be okay for the community to put nonstandard kernels into > > Fedora? If not, why not? > > > I could see adding one "bitbucket" kernel though, with several > prototype features. The purpose behind the bitbucket would be to give > exposure to features which need more baking before hitting mainline > (but with the stated plan that if they were rejected permanently from > mainline, they get dropped). Ideally it would be exactly the -mm > kernel, to reduce the maintenance burden. Someone(s) (not DaveJ) > would have to agree to maintain it though. Ideally, sure. But have you seen akpm's emails about -mm recently? Things like "it seems to compile" as the description for a -mm release don't particularly inspire one to run out and offer to support pushing this to the Fedora masses. I like the idea, I really do. It would theoretically improve the upstream kernel too. But it's a metric crap-ton of work just to get the thing building and working on a single platform. Is there anyone crazy enough to try and support this? Handling the bug reports alone could be a full time job. josh
