On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 13:06 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:32:25 -0700, > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > NVIDIA and ATI are the major use case for MDV (and, frankly, for RPM > > Fusion), so I came around to the view that it isn't really a good idea > > to have kmods or DKMS in Fedora; the major use case for them doesn't > > apply to Fedora and never will, and the other objections are pretty > > valid for all the other cases for which DKMS / kmods can be used (either > > this stuff should go straight into the kernel or we should not ship it). > > And the pain involved in keeping the pre-built binaries in sync with the > > kernel is significant. > > If you use telephony hardware you also have this problem as Digium doesn't > want to upstream Dahdi / Zaptel so they can sell custom versions of > the kernel drivers under different licenses. That is, indeed, a problem. > And no one else seems to have > enough interest to fork the project and get it upstreamed. That would appear to be the correct solution :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
