-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/16/2009 05:19 AM, Jean Delvare wrote:
Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 20:08, Jeff Mahoney a écrit :
On 12/15/2009 02:06 PM, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
Hi Jeff,
first: I generally agree with Hubert: "making people happy is good". Additionally, I am not really affected as I am running FACTORY anyway ;) Just one question...
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:09:59 -0500 Jeff Mahoney
wrote: The particular driver I was asked about is completely standalone. I don't have a problem including it since it won't affect anything else.
Then it should be easy to build it as a KMP and provide via the buildservice, shouldn't it?
(I'm not saying that this is better for the user or anything, just pointing out that there is another option)
Yep. That's definitely an option, but ends up actually being more work than just adding it to the tree.
But it offers a much higher degree of flexibility. You can provide several versions of the driver for different categories of users, and they can switch easily if anything goes wrong.
If building KMPs is hard, then maybe we should work at making it easier.
It's not that it's hard, it's that it's time consuming. Short of making an automated interface to the build service to do all of this for us, that doesn't change. There is one advantage that I had overlooked. Users can create their own KMPs and submit requests for inclusion into a special Kernel:Extras project or something with very little interaction from the kernel teams. On the other hand, now with the public git repo, the same is possible with just adding a kernel patch. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkspDs8ACgkQLPWxlyuTD7LoGwCgn8v6XeYaeU4TsKEwwSj6tbkr zJQAmwYi5Zu6qKHAMbDeAmCF2Bv/6oYu =mqFX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org