Re: kernel with supermount
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 08:40:41PM +0100, Massimo Dal Zotto wrote:
> >
> > I expect this to appear in upstream kernels fairly soon. The less work Debian
> > has to do to test kernels the better. By using a fairly stock kernel, we are
> > not as prone to weird Debian only bugs. Also, users tend to grab kernels from
> > the upstream just as often as they use the one shipped by Debian. If
> > functionality suddenly disappears when the user thought they were upgrading, it
> > would be bad.
> >
>
> I disagree here.
>
> I have actually a Debian-only bug with a machine using a fairly stock
> kernel. The machine locks after running out of real memory and starting
> swapping. Not beeing a kernel guru I have no idea of what the problem could
> be but I have solved it by installing the stock kernel of Mandrake 7.1
> which works fine under the same conditions (the problem is reproducible).
>
> This shows that the 200 patches applied by Mandrake to the stock kernel have
> been added for some valid reasons. Unfortunately they don't explain which
> problems have been solved by the various patches.
>
> In my opinion we should give a better service to our users by providing a
> kernel with more bug fixes and more useful features. If the user chooses
> to recompile the kernel he must know what he is doing and take its own
> responsabilities.
>
> The supermount patch I proposed in my previous message is great for users
> because they don't have to worry about mounting and unmounting floppies and
> cdroms, which isn't a very user-friendly way of handling those devices,
> specially for people coming from the windows world.
>
> In this sense having the supermount support in our kernel would be a better
> service to our users and would also simplify the default system setup.
>
> --
> Massimo Dal Zotto
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