On Wednesday, 22 May 2019 10:49 Matthias Eckermann wrote:
2-Is the SLE connection to kernels in Leap responsible for extra modules, some that otherwise wouldn't be included in a FOSS distro?
More the opposite: SUSE Linux Enterprise by default ships significantly less modules than openSUSE does, as we split off a package called "kernel-default-extra" which contains modules that a FOSS distro as openSUSE needs/wants to have, but we do not necessarily can declare fully enterprise supported (yet), e.g. kernel modules from "staging".
Even with kernel-default-extra included, there is a lot of modules which we only build for openSUSE kernels, not SLE ones. I have to admit, though, that I expected the ratio to be higher than it is: SLE15 3219 openSUSE-15.0 3921 Tumbleweed 4108 Back to the original question: there are probably be some modules which only make sense in SLE kernels but the number is certainly much lower than number of modules which only make sense in openSUSE. And it's often useful to be able to boot an openSUSE kernel on enterprise hardware for testing purpose. On the other hand, I would agree that we certainly build a lot of modules in openSUSE kernel packages which no openSUSE user actually uses and most likely also quite a few which people couldn't use even if they wanted to (e.g. specific sensor chips which are not used in any x86_64 or i586 system). The hard part is to tell which modules we could drop safely, unfortunately the config option description are rarely helpful. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org