* Kenneth Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-11-24 00:46]: > On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 23:05 +0100, Frank-Michael Fischer wrote: > > Andreas Jaeger schrieb: > > > Frank-Michael Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > <snip> > > Bug 223513 filed. > > > > What does: "module not supported by Novell" versus "module supported by > > Novell" mean anyway? If Novell supports a module is Novell allowed to > > patch this module without maintainer's approval? Or is a maintainer > > still allowed to patch a module if its supported by Novell? Etc. The > > impact of such a message seems not clear to me. > > Please clarify: does the "module ext2" belong to Novell or does it > belong to "linux"? Do other distros show the same message "module not > supported by Novell" or do they put their own distro name in the > message. If I were the maintainer of the module I would be offended by > this statement.
It's a kernel patch of Novell/SUSE. I don't know if other distributions like RedHat have simlar patches. It's not in the mainline kernel.org kernel. And I really don't know why the maintainer of the module should have a problem with this message. It doesn't say the module is "bad", it only says that we don't support this module, and, as Andreas Jaeger already said, it's mainly for enterprise distributions and not for openSUSE. As I learned now by reading the patch, you can set sources=2 at the kernel command line to turn the warning off. 0 means "only allow supported modules" and 1 (the default) means "warn when loading unsupported modules". Regards, Bernhard
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