cage47
12-08-2002, 03:08 PM
I've read in a few places that no one involved in kernel development wants to hear anything about the supermount patch that mandrake utilizes for their kernels. I find this confusing and a little irksome. To me this is an essential ingredient for many newbies. Personally I can deal with working with mount and umount. I could just put in menu entries (like I did in Debian). But for my wife and 8yo daughter this is needed since they aren't as technically biased as I am. I know Mandrake has had trouble with it in the past (reason I didn't mess with Mandy 8.1. But it has worked flawlessly for me in 7.0, 8.0 and 8.2. So what's the deal? I mean, with Mandrake just working on it it is coming along fine but imagine if the entire kernel development crew were working on making this a standard kernel feature. Imagine how stable it'd be by now. And since when you compile a kernel you can pick and choose what you want, anyone who didn't like it could just recompile it out. What's the story on this and how high up the chain (Linus?) does the distaste for the supermount patch go?