On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:13:33PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 01:02:03PM -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > I don't think I'm very fond of the kernel-modules-extra package. > > But if it is going to be around, it needs to process the dependencies > > in a way that doesn't require both modules to be installed all the > > time. :-) > > Honestly, we might want to just call depmod to work out _all_ the > dependencies, then parse modules.dep and move everything once. Playing > games either way is just going to play shell games moving a module > around. Honestly, I still think that has it backwards. If a module is important enough to stay in kernel (e.g. a hardware device driver), then dependency on a module that was slated for extras shouldn't pull the more important module over there -- it should pull the "extra" module back to kernel instead. John -- John W. Linville The water won't run clean until you get linville@xxxxxxxxxx the pigs out of the creek. _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
