On Wednesday 14 March 2007 01:05:26 am Marcus Meissner wrote:
Someone at novel must have been able to predict or even after the fact see that removing smbfs AND usbfs support from the kernel is bound to lead into at least some 10.2 sales losses. The fact that a recompile is required is guarranteed to turn some customers away and both file systems are needed for basic functionality in some major applications.
"sales losses" are quite difficult for a product that is mostly downloaded.
The next 10.2 kernel update will include USBFS again btw.
Just out of curiosity - why are some items called "kernel modules" and others not? For example, I often use the Cisco VPN client to telecommute. It seems that every few weeks - I guess when kernel update happens - the client fails. I'm then forced to recompile. Wouldn't developers want to put these things outside of the kernel so they are independent of such? -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org