[fab] Kernel Module packages in Core and Extras

[Jesse Keating]

On Sunday 20 August 2006 07:21, Rahul wrote:
> > - Disallow kmodule-packages in Extras and only integrate some very
> > important modules in the Core kernel package (like the Broadcom-WLAN
> > drivers we merged in FC% or ipw2100 and ipw2200 in FC4)
>
> This really seems the better solution to me. It put the kernel
> maintainers in control of the situation and they need to be in control
> since they are the ones dealing with the bug reports and would be more
> aware of which modules are going upstream etc.

I'm in favor of this too.  Prevents the lag between updates in which a user 
could be vulnerable to a known kernel flaw, and it keeps our depsolvers and 
buildsystems somewhat sane.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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