On Jan 08, 2009, at 20:17, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Felix Kaechele wrote:
> I already shared my idea of providing custom patched kernels in
> RPMFusion with Thorsten and he said that it would be an interesting
> thing to do. But I also, of course, want to know the opinion of the
> other contributors as this is a decision that should be made by not
> only
> a few people.
Some concerns I have:
* Some people will want to have more than one patch, so having
separate
kernels with the separate patches won't make everyone happy, but
patches
are often incompatible (or at least apparently incompatible, needing
manual
merging), so making a single kernel with all the patches isn't going
to
scale.
* What about kmods? Building those for all the patched kernels will
quickly
lead to an explosion of kmods.
I share Kevin's concerns and have some additional stuff to add:
-Where are bugs going to be filed for anything kernel-ish that goes
wrong when people are running these kernels? Good chance they'll get
filed at
bugzilla.redhat.com. Trust me, Fedora kernel devs already
have their hands full trying to weed through the bugs filed against
the kernels they've built. Bugs for someone else's kernel: DO NOT WANT.
-Why are these patches not kmod-able or upstream-able? If they aren't
either of those, then why would we even want to touch them?
-If we *do* do a custom patched kernel, I think we should do a kernel-
rt before anything else... :)
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Jarod Wilson
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