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.
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? Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of zSeries Linux Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 1:46 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: FW: Smbfs module not supported When I mount an smb file system through any linux instance the smbfs kernel module taints the kernel with the message "kernel module smbfs not supported by Novell". This is SLES9 with 2.6.5-7.252-s390 kernel. I understand that it's probably not going to have an impact outside of running tainted but was wondering if this is just a "feature" of the current kernel revision or if it's an *available* feature of previous kernel rev's as well? Anyone from Novell/SuSE here to possibly shed some light on why the smb file system module might taint the kernel? Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
