macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated

Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by bori5 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:44AM (#22255022)

Thanks for the tip, interesting list, wonder why Samsung is on the list for T5 SSD drive ?

  System Version: macOS 10.14.6 (18G2022)

  kextstat -l | grep -v com.apple | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 7,8 -d ' '

  com.logitech.manager.kernel.driver (6.62.1)
  com.samsung.portablessd.driver (1.5.02)
  com.intel.driver.EnergyDriver (3.7.0)
  com.bitgapp.eqMac2Driver (2.0)
  com.objective-see.lulu (1.2.3)
  com.Cycling74.driver.Soundflower (2)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv (6.1.2)
  com.intel.kext.intelhaxm (7.5.1)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB (6.1.2)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt (6.1.2)
  org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp (6.1.2)

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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by webmobdev on Thursday February 06, 2020 @07:55AM (#22255627)

Just a guess - Maybe to tell macOS how to SSD TRIM or do other tasks on Samsung specific SSD's?

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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by cpeterso on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:50AM (#22255058)

> wonder why Samsung is on the list for T5 SSD drive ?

Maybe it's a driver to mount a Samsung phone as a virtual SSD?

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Re:macOS Kernel Extensions are officially deprecated by bori5 on Thursday February 06, 2020 @06:51AM (#22255330)

I don’t have a samsung phone , only thing I have is there T5 SSD drive ?

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