Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Jesse Marlin <jlm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

JW writes:
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 > MM > > an >Roman Drahtmueller wrote: an >> Negative. You need the LSM patch
 > MM > > in the kernel for that. 
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 > MM > > Do you have any advise for those of us who are wanting to do this
 > MM > > _now_, e.g. is there a SuSEified LSM patch alreday produced anywhere
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 > MM >I don't know if there are problems with SuSE running a vanilla kernel 
 > MM >patched with LSM. 
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 > MM >I would like to know if there is a problem running a vanilla kernel not 
 > MM >patched by SuSE?
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 > I have not got as far as looking for myself yet (hope to inthe next day or so) but I'm wondering, is there some reason you can't apply the patches to the SuSE kernel? 
 > I intend to try, but if someone already knows that it's not possible, I'd appreciate the heads up.

I use a vanilla kernel, and no problems.   I have also applied a foreign USB
patch to get my USB mass storage device to work.  I am not sure what the
SuSE patched kernels provide that a vanilla kernel doesn't, maybe features
that have not made it into the kernel yet.

I Hope this helps, it is hard to tell what this thread is about.