On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 09:38:19PM +0000, Phil Perry wrote: > >It seems like Wireguard might be a good example of something for an > >alternate kernel maintained by a SIG. (Like the Xen SIG does.) > Why would you do that? The method we use in Enterprise Linux to > deliver 3rd party out-of-tree drivers is the RHEL Driver Update Because it's an out-of-tree but open source driver. > If Red Hat really wanted to fix this in (a) kernel, the solution > would have been to accept the repeated upstream requests to backport > the driver into the RHEL kernel, but that idea/request has been > rejected. Right, Red Hat's gonna make business decisions about what goes into the RHEL kernel, and pulling in out-of-tree backports is pretty expensive. But this is exactly the kind of thing CentOS SIGs are empowered to do. See again the Virt/Xen SIG. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader