[ATrpms-users] FESCo Meeting

[Richi Plana]

On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 19:55 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> We had an irc meeting a year ago when I tried to convince Fedora that
> kmods are broken and that kmdls should be introduced. It was mainly
> torpedoed by Thorsten Leemhouis, and I don't have the nerve and time
> to waste part of my life again. :(

Perhaps he'll have a change of heart. Or other engineers will see your
point now.

> See also
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AxelThimm/kmdls
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AxelThimm/kmdls/kmods_vs_kmdls_at_a_glance
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/AxelThimm/kmdls/voting
> 
> Don't worry, even if fesco shoots down kmods (which would be a good
> thing, kmods are a broken implementation to start with), kmdls will
> stay.

That'll be sad. Instead of being able to come up with the possibility of
coming up with a spin of Fedora with optimized kernel modules for their
target audience or even be able to have just the needed modules for ones
system (if one is savvy enough) via yum and rpm, you'll end up with a
monolithic kernel with all the modules in the kernel tree installed.

With regards to kmdl, that'll only be true for some modules and modules
that aren't in the kernel tree.

*sigh*
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Richi Plana