On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:52:00PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 11:20 -0500, John W. Linville wrote: > > In some cases, it might be desirable to package a module from an > > external source tree alongside the base kernel. In those cases, it > > might also be desirable to not have those modules tainting the kernel. > > > > This patch provides a mechanism for an external module build to declare > > itself as an "integrated build". Such a module is then treated the same > > as an intree module. > > > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > Any thoughts on this? I'm thinking of adding this to Fedora kernels, > > where I have been working to integrate the compat-wireless package as > > part of the base kernel RPM. > [...] > > If you're integrating it then why can't you *really* build it in-tree? Well, of course, I could. But it would be a _huge_ waste of my time doing so. The compat-wireless package is already sitting there, complete with all the necessary backporting infrastructure. It's all fat and juicy, waiting to be used. Wasting time replicating that just doesn't make any sense to my mind. John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
