Am Thu, 30 Jun 2011 06:30:29 -0700 schrieb Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 01:48:12PM +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
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.
It's 128kb wasted disk space. And in return for that waste, no update problems anymore. Sounds like a fair deal.
(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 :)
Well, I still can uninstall the preload package, the kernel module won't hurt me then. That would be a valid argument if the kernel was a lean package, but it is a "everything in one package" BLOB anyway, so the additional module will not change anything. It would definitely make life much easier for people struggling with kernel updates right now. -- Stefan Seyfried "Dispatch war rocket Ajax to bring back his body!" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org