On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:33:14AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Yay! So then one day we can look forward to everything being built in > and a user wanting to build a webcam driver having to build their own > kernel too. Then we'll really have won because that user - who can > follow some straightforward instructions on a website showing them how > to build a driver and install it - will give up and go use Ubuntu. I don't think anyone's argued for building an entirely static kernel. Where there's a significant advantage to building something in (and Arjan has shown that there is), we should do it. If there isn't, we shouldn't. I really don't think there's any reason the vast majority of our users would want to replace their AHCI driver, and the -hda one needs solving in some way other than "Download and rebuild ALSA" anyway. > Just because we can build our own kernels with whatever patches does not > mean that all users who want to add a driver are capable of this. If users are capable of following the documentation for building an out of tree module, they're capable of following the documentation describing how to produce a modified kernel. The ones who aren't are, I'm willing to bet, a smaller number than the users who would be attracted by increased boot speeds. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
