Post, Mark K wrote:
> I've been meaning to get back to this for some time.  I looked at the
> SLES9 kernel source.  There's nothing in the smbfs code that would
> generate that kind of message.  I'm guessing that SUSE/Novell hacked the
> modutils code to put out that message and set the kernel tainting on.
> 
Which is a correct assumption.

Modules supported by Novell != GPL modules.
Hence the different wording.

> Just exactly _why_ they would do that, I have no idea.  Has anyone seen
> any statements from Novell that smbfs would not be supported in SLES9?
> 
Errm. No, I certainly haven't. And I think our samba team would be quite
disappointed if that would be the case.

Anyone care to open a bugzilla?

THX,

Hannes
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