Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?

[dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>]

Bill C. Riemers wrote:
> dragoran wrote:
>   
>> Bill C. Riemers wrote:
>>     
>>> You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel.  When I install
>>> dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel.  I am fairly
>>> certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much
>>> of a problem getting it added to Fedora.  For that matter, it could
>>> probably get added into the new Enterprise Extra's repository as
>>> well.  However, someone would need to volunteer to maintain the package.
>>>       
>> no thats not true fedora want to change the policy about out of tree
>> modules the want to drop all kmod-* packages and only allow modules
>> into the kernel rpm that are upstream or about to get merged upstream.
>> anyway why has kqemu to be a out of tree module?
>>     
> It looks like you are right.  Apparently the plan is to move the
> acceptance of kernel modules to kernel maintainers.  For the most part,
> they only want to accept very cleanly written modules that are likely to
> be integrated into the kernel.  Since "kqemu" is viewed as a solution
> only for obsolete hardware, that is not likely to happen. 
I am not sure that working on older hardware will keep it out of the 
kernel. it adds support for unsupported hardware .... I don't see a 
problem here.
>  It is a shame
> too, because "kqemu" provides a quality working solution for most of the
> hardware still in use today.
>
>   
we should atleast try to get it in ... the "it wont get merged anyway" 
attitude isn't very helpfull.