Packaging for kernel modules

The current packaging of kernel modules has been fairly flat, (and
quite large).

I think the right thing to do is to split the kernel modules up into
as many separate packages as makes sense. Then user-level packages
which require specific modules would have dependencies added to pull
in the appropriate modules. James Conner drew up the following diagram
some time ago as a strawman proposal for kernel module packaging:

ftp://familiar.handhelds.org/familiar/releases/v0.4/docs/graphs/Ipaq-module-deps.pdf

I'd be interested in comments on the above.

-Carl

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Carl Worth                                        
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