[ATrpms-users] IEEE-1394 kmdls

[Tim Fenn]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:59:58 -0600 Mike LaPlante <mike at dividia.net>
wrote:

> Axel Thimm wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:55:44AM -0600, Mike LaPlante wrote:
> >   
> >> Just wondering if there are plans to rebuild the kmdls for 1394 on
> >> the new F7 2.6.23 kernel? Package doesn't seem to be updated it. I
> >> may try to compile my own but the rpms sure are handy.
> >>     
> >
> > OK, I scheduled builds for 2.6.23.1. For F8 as well.
> >   
> You rock Axel, thanks, though I just finished manually compiling them
> on one system. >.<
> 
> Still curious as to why distros have made the switch to Juju when no
> one I know have has had any luck with those modules. Seems the me the 
> modules marked (experimental) in the kernel should be off by default
> and people wanting to try them would be bugging you to make kmdls.
> 

Its to push developers to use the new stack.  A few folks are hard at
work getting it to play nice with OHCI 1.0 controllers:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=344851

But as Axel has mentioned, it would have been nice to at least include
the older ieee modules with the f7/8 kernels and blacklist one or
the other so programs that are still very much dependent on the older
stack (e.g. mythtv) could be used:

http://marc.info/?t=119383792600002&r=1&w=2&n=2

-Tim

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