CCing fedora-kernel
On 08.01.2009 03:49, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Quite a bit of new drivers in
http://lwn.net/Articles/313730/
Related: I raised the staging problem already in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477927
as rawhide contained the at76 driver as separate patch
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewvc/rpms/kernel/devel/linux-2.6-at76.patch?view=markup
-- but the same driver (with two small changes) also was part of the
upstream kernel since October/2.6.28-rc as one of the staging drivers:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=99e06e372378c5833a0c60274b645dfb2e4a4b08
(for more details see bug).
That sounds wrong to me, as
- it's duplicated work
- the at76 staging driver from upstream taints the kernel; the driver
from our patch doesn't.
The ralink wireless drivers for example would hopefully make the newer
EEE PC model would out of the box. Does it make sense to enable the
drivers in staging tree by default and bring more exposure to them
atleast via rawhide if not in general releases?
+1 to the "I think providing hardware support in rawhide and then
removing it before release would be somewhat user-hostile." comment
from mjg59.
IOW: Either enable or disable them. I'm unsure myself what to do but I
tend to say that disabling the whole staging drivers might be the best
for Fedora (Greg calls himself as "maintainer of crap" for a good reason).
@Davej, Cebbert and Kylem: What's your position on this?
If they are disabled completely in Fedora then I'll nevertheless
consider to create a "kmod-staging" package for RPM Fusion.
CU
knurd
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