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?


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