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Re: [opensuse] Call for Testing: openSUSE 10.2 Bootloader Test
- From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 14:25:28 +0200
- Message-id: <20070413122528.GA2372@xxxxxxx>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:39:49PM +0100, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> >CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
> This feature is really important for the Virtualization software
> around ! (and therefore for me)
>
> Why did it get removed from 10.2 ? I have heard of "security reasons",
> now I don't believe this, since if it were security, it would not be
> re-introduced into 10.3, so more specifically - why it was removed ?
Because it is obsolete and deprecated and we thought all users were fixed
already.
It has now been readded for 10.2 with the above kernel update.
For 10.3 we will again try to remove it.
Ciao, Marcus
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> >CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS
> This feature is really important for the Virtualization software
> around ! (and therefore for me)
>
> Why did it get removed from 10.2 ? I have heard of "security reasons",
> now I don't believe this, since if it were security, it would not be
> re-introduced into 10.3, so more specifically - why it was removed ?
Because it is obsolete and deprecated and we thought all users were fixed
already.
It has now been readded for 10.2 with the above kernel update.
For 10.3 we will again try to remove it.
Ciao, Marcus
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