jforbes_fedora

So blog first, then file bug? Anyway, I am the kernel maintainer, but not the kmod maintainer, so I didn't see the bug. I did however create a pull request to remove the script from Fedora, and that was merged. I would expect it to make updates fairly soon.

It is always better to ask if we can do something than just assume we can't or won't. Fedora is largely driven by what the community wants and needs.

>I think the truth here is that Fedora packagers don't much care about out of tree kernel modules. It's not something we spend a lot of time thinking about or discussing

This is not entirely true. There is not much we can do about out of tree modules when they don't work with the latest kernel version for whatever reason. If the issue is in our packaging, I do try to keep things working. For instance, we added a number of deps to kernel-devel for 5.12 because what was there was not adequate for 'make prepare' to run, which was required for some modules.

You really had me here right up until:

> I would file a bug report but I cannot imagine that Fedora would accept it.

Weak modules was shipped with Fedora to allow some testing for certain scenarios as things go forward. There was already a bug filed that it took too long to run on major kernel updates, so the call to the script was removed from the kernel post. Had someone filed a bug on this, it would have been looked at as well, and likely your module would just work instead of wasting time to write a blog post about how something is broken that you can't even be bother to file a bug over.

- The Fedora Kernel Maintainer who actually reads every bug filed against the Fedora kernel