Re: Kernel Module packages in Core and Extras

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On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:27 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Sunday 20 August 2006 07:21, Rahul wrote:
> > > - Disallow kmodule-packages in Extras and only integrate some very
> > > important modules in the Core kernel package (like the Broadcom-WLAN
> > > drivers we merged in FC% or ipw2100 and ipw2200 in FC4)
> >
> > This really seems the better solution to me. It put the kernel
> > maintainers in control of the situation and they need to be in control
> > since they are the ones dealing with the bug reports and would be more
> > aware of which modules are going upstream etc.
> 
> I'm in favor of this too.  Prevents the lag between updates in which a user 
> could be vulnerable to a known kernel flaw, and it keeps our depsolvers and 
> buildsystems somewhat sane.

But why wouldn't they just be part of the actual kernel package then?

josh

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