Kernel upgrade and recompile Samba

[Davor Vusir]

2014-06-27 1:02 GMT+02:00 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>:
> On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 13:25 +0200, Davor Vusir wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> When  the kernel is upgraded and the associated libraries and such
>> too, is it beneficial to recompile Samba? To be able to use the new
>> improved functionality?
>
> No, Samba does not depend on the running kernel.
>
> Likewise, there is rarely additional functionality exposed as new APIs
> that we use in new system libraries, so I wouldn't bother.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>

Thank you.

/Davor

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