Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (75 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Am Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:21:04 +0200
> schrieb Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>:
>
> > Usually KMPs do not need to be updated alongside with the kernel, and will 
> > work
> > with older ones.
> >
> > The preload-kmp is an exception, as it is basically just a systemtap hook 
> > kmp
> > and must be rebuild with every kernel.
>
> And of course one important question then is: "why is it not built
> alongside the kernel but instead as an KMP?"

Because not everyone wants/needs it, so it will not be part of the
"main" kernel package.

> (The best thing to do is actually "zypper rm '*preload*'" that fixes all
> those problems instantly).

See, you don't want it, so if you had it in the kernel package, it would
be harder to get rid of :)

greg k-h
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