dkms for fc7?

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Mon Jan 22 18:57:38 UTC 2007


Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/22/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> > Le Lun 22 janvier 2007 01:59, Kevin Kofler a écrit :
> > > Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot <at> laposte.net> writes:
> > >> Out-of-tree driver writer 1 will say "I only support 2.6.x proper"
> > >> Out-of-tree driver writer 2 will say "I only support up to 2.6.x-rcy"
> > >> davej will say "I'll ship 2.6.x.3 in because previous releases are
> > >> missing
> > >> a critical fix and that matches the Fedora release schedule"
> > >
> > > Then you patch the modules. :-)
> >
> > Then you're back to square one, except you don't have your pool of users
> > pushing for in-kernel merge anymore

> To be honest.. I don't see any pool of users pushing for in-kernel
> merge anyway..

Try it.

>                or that they are going to be very effective in causing
> this. In kernel merge comes when the code is acceptable.. not because
> 400 people email Linus and the 'core developers': please put xyz-ntx
> module into mainline.

They should bug the developers of the code to be included to clean up and
submit.
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