Re: Possibility to maintain in tree modules

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 05:54:07PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> writes:
> 
> >> The drawbacks that I can see:
> >> 
> >>  - when we need to update a module ('cause a security flaw or a
> >>    serious bug) we'll need to recompile the whole kernel;
> >
> >   - it is well adapted to ubuntu's centralized maintenance system, but less
> >     adapted to debian's distributed nature. At least that was the concensus
> >     here last time we spoke about the issue.
> >
> > Also, if i remember well, ubuntu has no testing, so they can't do the two
> > level archive we have, and let the testing scripts synchronize the modules
> > with the kernel.
> 
> But what if every module maintainer to be a kernel-team member to work
> in his modules? Wouldn't be that hard to have it done. We might have a
> process to accept a module in tree but after that it start to be part
> of maintainence of kernel team itself.
> 
> I just realised that it might be a good workaround for our current
> problems.
Well, what can i say, look at the mailing list archive for previous discussion
on this :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther