Hi,
On 17-01-17 21:59, Laura Abbott wrote:
On 01/17/2017 05:19 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 17-01-17 14:12, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Lo! Three quick question from someone who for some strange reason is
interested in this topic:
Hans de Goede wrote on 17.01.2017 13:11:
As such I would like to (for starters) add this driver:
https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs
Which is fully open source and although not ready for
upstream, actively maintained by the community, to the
driver/staging directory of the Fedora kernel pkg.
* wouldn't it make more sense to simply add the driver to the staging
directory upstream?
See my answer to Bastien's mail.
* will users somehow made aware they are using drivers of lower quality
which are maintained differently (they for example might vanish suddenly
if maintainers lose interest, which normally doesn't happen with proper
kernel drivers)
Other then the standard tainting caused by this being in staging, no.
* while at it: Is https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelStagingPolicy
still considered policy or is it a page everyone forgot about?
I for one had never heard about that page.
Regards,
Hans
Yes, that page should still be accurate wrt to staging policy although
I think the list of drivers might need to be updated.
In general, I think upstreaming is the right approach to take and
if you are willing to go through staging, I think that could be
a good path to work to get the driver out of staging.
I've the feeling this whole discussion has been derailed a bit
by focusing too much on the rtl8723bs example.
Quoting from my original mail, upstreaming was given as
one possible solution:
"d) Get the driver upstreamed. Unfortunately many of
these drivers are vendor code, which often is ported
windows code with lots of ugly glue; and the effort to
get this upstream will take more time then I have
to invest into this. Also if this were easy it would
have been done by now, there are quite a few people
interested in this."
Nothing has changed wrt this, to be specific I would like
to see the following wifi drivers be available in Fedora
kernels:
rtl8723bs
rtl8189es
rtl8189fs
esp8089
xradio
And in the future possible others (rda599x comes to mind)
and I simply do not have the bandwidth to get 1 one of
these let alone all of these into staging, let alone
fully mainlined.
Currently we're crippling our user experience by refusing
to ship drivers support this hardware even though there are
fully open drivers to support these.
Again quoting from my original email:
"I also believe that this rule goes against Fedora's
basic principles:
-It goes against the First principle, many other distros
are shipping with this driver
-It goes against the Features principle, disallowing
people to have working wifi is a mis-Feature
-It goes against the Freedom principle, if a contributor
is willing to spend time to maintain such a driver
he/she should have the freedom to do so"
And I still end up at my original unanswered question:
"All I'm asking from the fedora kernel team is permission
to add the driver."
Regards,
Hans
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