"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Em Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:53:13 +0200 > Olivier Blin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > | > Or do you think it's important for 2007 too? > | > | It is important as well, since I've seen a lot of users compiling this > | driver themselves on 2007.0. > > Do we have the hardware for testing?
I'm checking with QA team, but I'm not sure we have one. But I can find users that will be able to test rt61 with the updated packages. > | > And, couldn't it be a dkms package? > | > | It could be, it just requires minimal changes in the drakxtools. > | But since when the kernel team policy is to externalize kernel > | modules? > > Actually, AFAIK, there's no police. And that's one of my main complaints > currently. > > It sounds like a good police to me to have all the 3rdparty drivers as > dkms modules. > > Then we can split the driver's maintenance work with other people; > the kernel package would have its size reduced; and you'd only install the > driver's you need. I definitely agree on that, and we already talked about that some months ago. But the lack of a definitive response from the *cooker* kernel team makes the situation stagnate... -- Olivier Blin - Mandriva
