On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:25:38AM +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> Hi! >> >> /me gave the mail a subject Thanks! :) >> >> Jon Ciesla wrote on 18.03.2012 23:33: >> > >> > = New business = >> > [...] >> > >> > #topic #822 F18 Feature: AE1000 USB wifi driver - >> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AE1000usb >> > .fesco 822 >> >> I must be missing something here. Is that a early April fools joke or is >> that simply a feature where the Feature owner (and apparently nobody >> else) first asked for advise on this list and on >> kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. If he did it I missed that, which is >> possible, but I'd assume he would have quickly been told that Fedora >> normally(¹) doesn't do things like that (e.g. include kernel drivers >> that are not in the upstream kernel). > > Yeah, there are a number of problems with this Feature request. > > 1) No discussion at all with the kernel maintainers > 2) Testing and development entirely done against F16, not F17 > 3) kmod > 4) out-of-tree kmod > 5) No links to upstream patch submissions > > Fortunately, I don't think this is even needed anymore. I'd think 3 and 4 alone would be enough to block this. 1 is pretty bad, 2 isn't great, and 5 is made worse by 3 and 4. . . -J > josh > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel -- in your fear, seek only peace in your fear, seek only love -d. bowie -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
