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Not a bug, but this appears to be a good forum for communication.
I work for a large federal agency and am part of an effort to make Red Hat Linux 8 and/or 9 available in a DaaS (Desktop As A Service) through VMWare. We would potentially have a few thousand users. VMWare calls out this module in their documentation.
It is required for redirecting audio and video to local USB devices on the host system.
Our dilemma is that Red Hat is the only fully-approved and supported Linux distro on our networks because of their extensive support for and deployment across federal agencies. Red Hat does not support DKMS (sorry-- login is required. Basic summary: Red Hat does not support DKMS), but it is available through EPEL. We're authorized to use EPEL, but for such a large project, that might pose difficulties in support. I see that it is available as a DKMS module in Ubuntu main. We do support some Ubuntu but would not be able to roll it out on such a large project. RHEL9 is built from 5.14, and IMHO it might be too late in the RHEL8 cycle to work with the 4.18 tree that it is built from. It's at 8.6, and .10 will be the final release.
My question: Have you considered requesting this module to be available in the main linux kernel tree? Or, as an alternative, submitting it to EPEL? The fact that an organization as large as VMWare documents its use is interesting to note.
Thank you for providing this piece of software.