Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] man2/: use IEC or ISO multiples to clarify long numeric digit strings

2023-02-21 Thread Alex Colomar
Hi Rob, On 2/21/23 18:00, Rob Landley wrote: If you're going to tell people to learn something new: 1<<10 is a kilobyte, 1<<20 is a megabyte, 1<<30 is a gigabyte, and so on. I've sometimes used 16*(1<<30) for clarity. That's nice, and for code it might be a good idea (although you have to be

Bug#1031738: installation-guide: documentation about limits to kernel boot parameters is outdated

2023-02-21 Thread James Addison
Source: installation-guide Version: 20220129~deb11u1 Severity: normal Tags: d-i patch Dear Maintainer, Some of the documentation related to limits in Linux kernel boot parameters in the installation guide is outdated. For example, the section describing[1] use of boot parameters for preseeding r

Re: Bug#1030940: e2fsprogs: generates filesystems that grub-install doesn't recognize

2023-02-21 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:17:20PM +, Christopher Obbard wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > Control: retitle -1 e2fsprogs generates filesystems which cannot be > mounted on systems with older e2fsprogs > > It turns out for debos the situation is a bit different. Since debos > uses packa

Bug#1031275: [PATCH v3 1/6] man2/: use IEC or ISO multiples to clarify long numeric digit strings

2023-02-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 2/20/23 09:35, Alex Colomar wrote: > On 2/20/23 15:29, Stefan Puiu wrote: >> Hi Alex, > > Hi Stefan, > >>> 4 KiB is not that much better than 4096, since 4096 is easy to read. >>> For higher numbers such as 33554432, it becomes more important to use 32 >>> KiB. >>> For consistency, using 4 Ki

Re: Bug#1030940: e2fsprogs: generates filesystems that grub-install doesn't recognize

2023-02-21 Thread Christopher Obbard
Control: severity -1 important Control: retitle -1 e2fsprogs generates filesystems which cannot be mounted on systems with older e2fsprogs It turns out for debos the situation is a bit different. Since debos uses packages on the host to prepare the partitions, new features in e2fsprogs from unsta

Bug#1029116: [PATCH] wifi: mt76: mt7921: correctly handle removal in the absence of firmware

2023-02-21 Thread Helmut Grohne
Trying to probe a mt7921e pci card without firmware results in a successful probe where ieee80211_register_hw hasn't been called. When removing the driver, ieee802111_unregister_hw is called unconditionally leading to a kernel NULL pointer dereference among other things. As with other drivers that