Kernel Modules in Fedora -x

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 7 18:01:56 UTC 2007


Les Mikesell wrote:

> What I'm looking for from this discussion is a definition of the target 
> audience for fedora. 

I remember pointing out this to you atleast twice but see 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives

  Nobody expects perfection, but is there really an
> audience that doesn't care if their devices stop working or not?

Don't confuse robustness with ABI breakage.

> There have been large chunks of time that it hasn't worked or disks 
> wouldn't be recognized even if it saw a raw IEEE device.  I gave up and 
> switched the machines that needed it to Centos with the centosplus 
> kernel so I don't know the current state except that I've seen comments 
> about a complete rewrite coming so it must still leave something to be 
> desired 

The rewrite is already in Fedora 7 (and will be in RHEL 5.1).

Rahul




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