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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel?
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To: "Bill C. Riemers" <docbill@freeshell.org>
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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?