Re: kmods poll

2007-06-25 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
/me is late in the game -- I was on vacation in the past two weeks and tried to keep a bit away from the keyboard On 19.06.2007 22:01, Josh Boyer wrote: I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-24 Thread Axel Thimm
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:01:07PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but rather on the idea of having

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 09:21 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 08:04 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: I'm mostly just rambling. In the past, there has been some vocal dissent for having kmods period, so I wanted to know the opinions from people on a more targeted list than

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:55 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:01 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation or the other various ways that the idea

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/20/2007 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: And if it isn't good enough for upstream to ship and support, why in $DEITY's name would we want to ship it, again? *cough* squashfs *cough cough* wireless-dev *cough* CFS *cough hack* xen *cough* ... exec-shield

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 11:15 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 06/20/2007 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: And if it isn't good enough for upstream to ship and support, why in $DEITY's name would we want to ship it, again? *cough* squashfs *cough cough* wireless-dev *cough* CFS *cough hack* xen

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:12 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: If it's good enough for Fedora to ship and support, we can put it in the main kernel package. Besides; if it's good enough for Fedora to ship and Which is something I suggested later in this thread. And if it isn't good enough for

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Jeremy Katz
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:39 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: Ok, out of those really only squashfs and xen aren't immediately headed towards some kind of upstream inclusion. Is squashfs not headed upstream? squashfs gets posted every few months, people come back with complaints, the

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Josh Boyer
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 23:39 +0800, David Woodhouse wrote: On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:12 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: If it's good enough for Fedora to ship and support, we can put it in the main kernel package. Besides; if it's good enough for Fedora to ship and Which is something I

kmods poll

2007-06-19 Thread Josh Boyer
I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but rather on the idea of having kernel modules as separate packages in general. If you're

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-19 Thread Hans de Goede
Josh Boyer wrote: I'd like to just do a brief poll here just to see how many are yay or nay for kmods. And I'm not talking about their current implementation or the other various ways that the idea can be accomplished, but rather on the idea of having kernel modules as separate packages in