On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 09:55, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 04:04:02PM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > > IIRC, it was disabled in late May due to severe code quality concerns. > > Yell at upstream to fix it, or build it yourself and use at your own risk. > > Without consultation, without consideration to existing users (who now have > to use -358 with all the other known holes) and without putting it in the > changelog ? > > Are you sure ? > > Alan Yeah, I think it would be preferable as well if kernel updates didn't add/remove modules unless it's a real need or bonus. In the latest updates pwc.ko got added as well, which was not in FC2, and then packagers have to resort to silly hacks (in my case, make a copy of the kernel module installed in an updates/ path to the kernel modules path as pwc-update.ko since the module scripts currently don't check for updates/ correctly as in 2.4). So, in general, having a heads-up of stuff to be added or removed from the kernel would be nice. And I don't think that removing a module due to upstream code not being nice enough is a good enough reason; if you didn't think it was a problem or missed it for the FC2 release, I doubt the code will have gotten much worse by the time of the updated kernel release. Unless there's a critical bug, it's nicer for all involved if the problem is just lived with until the next major milestone. Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> If I could talk I'd tell you If I could smile I'd let you know You are far and away my most imaginary friend <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/
