* John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-15-07 01:10]:
> On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> > "sales losses" are quite difficult for a product that is mostly downloaded.
> >
> > The next 10.2 kernel update will include USBFS again btw.
>
> Cool, use support returns for Vmware. How soon?
posted in this forum 12 Mar 2007:
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:55:59 -0400
From: Patrick Shanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: opensuse@opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Kernel Building Resources & Recommendations
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* Thomas Hertweck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-12-07 16:48]:
[...]
> As I wrote in my last email, there are several ways to deal with this
> problem. If you have to support many systems and not just your local
> desktop system, then the simplest way might be an RPM package that
> replaces the default usbcore.ko (from the SuSE kernel installation)
> with a new (your own) version that has USB_DEVICEFS enabled. This might
> minimize the possible side-effects as only a single file is changed.
[...]
16.55 wahoo:~ > rpm -q --changelog kernel-default | head
(none)* Fri Mar 09 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Enable CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS (#210899 and a zillion others.) Turns
out that vmware isn't going to change anything, so making our
users (and executives) have to build their own kernels is not
something we should be doing. I was wrong, sorry.
16:55 wahoo:~ > rpm -q kernel-default
kernel-default-2.6.18.8-146.1
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