Plans for tomorrow's (20090529) FESCo meeting

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri May 29 16:07:25 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:49 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
> > Not just driver.  We said that the kernel team could choose to include
> > any out of tree stuff they deem acceptable, but they would include it in
> > the kernel proper rather than as a nasty kernel module package hack.
> 
> The problem is that they say "no" almost every time, even to the modules
> FESCo had previously approved as kmods (em8300, sysprof). They now sit as
> kmods in RPM Fusion.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

And as the kernel maintainers, it's their right to say no, as
particularly with the kernel any addon software can have major impact on
the entire kernel.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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