"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

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