[fab] Kernel Module packages in Core and Extras

[Rahul]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 11:27 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> But why wouldn't they just be part of the actual kernel package then?
> 

They would be. That is in fact the suggestion.

Rahul