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From: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
To: "Paweł Sikora" <pluto@agmk.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [kernel-abi] symbol versioning vs. out-of-tree modules.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:49:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DB429C.4050904@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200809250829.22294.pluto@agmk.net>

Paweł Sikora wrote:
> On Thursday 25 of September 2008 04:48:40 Greg KH wrote:
>> What kernel modules do you currently use/rely on that are not in the
>> main kernel tree?  Do you have links to them?  I'd be glad to add them.
> 
> here's a quick list:
> 
> - http://www.lirc.org

^^^^ People are taking steps to adapt this to be included in kernel. See 
  http://lwn.net/Articles/297770/ . I could have sworn I saw someone 
posting an input layer patch for lirc the other day too... Aha - 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/24/328 .

> - http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

Isn't this one already in the wireless tree? I believe it was merged in 
2.6.24 - 
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24#head-62e9ebf067c978bbf70898986c0aa3904d1a3543 
.

> - http://aufs.sourceforge.net

I've read rumblings about one of the stacking FSes being merged but thus 
far nothing seems to have happened - http://lwn.net/Articles/265240/ .

> - http://linux-uvc.berlios.de

USB video has already been merged into mainline in 2.6.25 - 
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26#head-6d4ee1ddea983f5c8ac491b8685a94ea6fa4132b 
! I'm using it on my eeepc...

Those are the ones I recognise off the top of my head. I'll have to 
search with regard to the other ones you mentioned...

-- 
Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-25  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-24 15:07 [kernel-abi] symbol versioning vs. out-of-tree modules Paweł Sikora
2008-09-24 16:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-26  9:50   ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-09-24 19:36 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-24 21:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-09-25  2:48 ` Greg KH
2008-09-25  6:29   ` Paweł Sikora
2008-09-25  7:49     ` Sitsofe Wheeler [this message]
2008-09-25  8:26       ` Sitsofe Wheeler
2008-09-25  8:52     ` el es
2008-09-25 12:54     ` Greg KH
2008-09-25 13:48       ` Paweł Sikora
2008-09-25 13:54         ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 11:25       ` Tilman Schmidt
2008-09-26 15:36         ` Greg KH
2008-09-26 17:19           ` Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
2008-09-26 20:09             ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-29  6:51 Alan Young
2008-09-29 15:42 ` Greg KH

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