>>>>> Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > So… the question becomes: do we still want this guideline? There is no > general _legal_ or _technical_ reason to not allow external kernel > modules to be packaged. The guideline was originally added way back in the earlier days of Fedora, on as a result of discussions between FESCo, the packaging committee and the kernel maintainers (which I think was basically just Dave Jones at the time). The idea was simply the obvious: external modules that cause bugs end up falling on the kernel maintainers to sort out, and that task is hard enough without a random assortment of modules in the way. There were other considerations as well. Pre-akmods it was difficult to keep modules and the main kernel version in sync, but that's not much of a consideration these days. The issue of incompatibility remains, though; modules may not always be compatible with new kernels, so what happens when a module package hasn't been ported? Do the kernel maintainers now have to worry about maintaining compatibility? In any case, if the kernel maintainers no longer want this policy, then of course we shouldn't have it. But if they do still want it to be in place then I would be against removing it. So go ahead and ask the maintainers, and they can let us (the packaging committee) know what they desire. It's entirely possible that the answer will be different now, all these years later. I would assume that the kernel maintainer team is completely different at this point. If they do not wish to continue the policy then we'll just need to work out a new one, and certainly guidelines will be needed. - J< _______________________________________________ packaging mailing list -- packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to packaging-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
