Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Jens Schmalzing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > >> Could this not be solved by simply making the kernel-source >> kernel-tree kernel-patch-debian dependency strict ? > > This is equivalent to dropping kernel-tree and kernel-patch-debian > altogether. kernel-tree-2.x.y-

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Could this not be solved by simply making the kernel-source > kernel-tree kernel-patch-debian dependency strict ? This is equivalent to dropping kernel-tree and kernel-patch-debian altogether. > After all, there is almost zero chance to have the patches in > separate s

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:19:01PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > So what is the problem ? > > The problem arises when stuff gets out of sync, i.e. applying the > latest revision of kernel-patch-debian to an older revision of > kernel-source doesn't result in

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > So what is the problem ? The problem arises when stuff gets out of sync, i.e. applying the latest revision of kernel-patch-debian to an older revision of kernel-source doesn't result in the latest revision of kernel-source. This was demonstrated nicely by the 2.4 buil

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> There's a major security update pending, so we'll need to upload new >> kernel images for everything in the universe in short order anyway. On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:47:01PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > I'm just about to upload a new ke

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >>> This will be necessary for major security issues, e.g. CAN-2004-0415, >>> anyway, so I think we'll be okay. The bit about latest kernel-source >>> is rather hopeful; if we

CAN 2004-0415 [linux kernel]

2004-08-05 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Have you guys seen this advisory yet? It looks rather serious: http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0016-procleaks.txt Apparently this is fixed in 2.4.27-rc5 (don't know about 2.6 series): http://lwn.net/Articles/96485/ The fix should probably go into Debian kernels in sarge... regards, -- Kev

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:10:35PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > I think the kernel-tree did depend on the exact same version of the > > kernel-source and kernel-patch-debian packages, > > kernel-tree depends on any revision of kernel-source and the latest > r

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > I think the kernel-tree did depend on the exact same version of the > kernel-source and kernel-patch-debian packages, kernel-tree depends on any revision of kernel-source and the latest revision of kernel-patch-debian. Together, this allows one to get the latest revisi

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Well, if the patch replaces the old patch in such a way that there is no > interaction with newer patches, this should be no major problem, right ? It becomes a problem if you have an older revision of kernel-source installed and wish to get the source tree to the late

Re: r973 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.7-2.6.7/debian: . patches

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Yeah, thanks, i had forgotten about this, will fix it later today. It's already fixed. > Let's wait one more day to be sure that other things don't come up. Fair enough. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:47:17PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Well, if the patch replaces the old patch in such a way that there is no > > interaction with newer patches, this should be no major problem, right ? > > It becomes a problem if you have an olde

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 08:42:46AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:57:16AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> There's a major security update pending, so we'll need to upload new > >> kernel images for everything in the universe in short order anyway. > > On

Bug#263753: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686: mounting cdrom causes kernel panic

2004-08-05 Thread Brian Frank
Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 Version: 2.6.7-2 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Attempting to mount a CDROM results in the CD spinning for approximately 30 seconds, then the system locks up completely (unresponsive to keyboard, mouse, and network). The lockup does no

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:57:16AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> There's a major security update pending, so we'll need to upload new >> kernel images for everything in the universe in short order anyway. On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 05:10:49PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Ok. Should i go ahead

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 07:57:16AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> This will be necessary for major security issues, e.g. CAN-2004-0415, > >> anyway, so I think we'll be okay. The bit about latest kernel-source > >> i

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> This will be necessary for major security issues, e.g. CAN-2004-0415, >> anyway, so I think we'll be okay. The bit about latest kernel-source >> is rather hopeful; if we take this as a precedent for architectures to >> update

Re: r973 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.7-2.6.7/debian: . patches

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:52:47PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Modified: trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.7-2.6.7/debian/patch > > es/marvell-pegasos.dpatch > > Let me re-iterate: You must never, ever change dpatch files that have > already made it into

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:53:03AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:28:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> I'd be inclined to push this kind of thing in general to the generic > >> package so long as no generic code is affected. > > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:33:02PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > I have to update the marvell-pegasos.dpatch patch, > > Keep in mind that you must not change patches that have been part of > previous uploads. An update has to go in as marvell-pegasos-2.dpatch

Re: r973 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.7-2.6.7/debian: . patches

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Modified: trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.7-2.6.7/debian/patch > es/marvell-pegasos.dpatch Let me re-iterate: You must never, ever change dpatch files that have already made it into uploads. Otherwise, you will certainly break kernel-tree. See debian/README.NMU,

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > I have to update the marvell-pegasos.dpatch patch, Keep in mind that you must not change patches that have been part of previous uploads. An update has to go in as marvell-pegasos-2.dpatch. > I have upto now refrained from doing the upload, since the changes > there w

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:28:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> I'd be inclined to push this kind of thing in general to the generic >> package so long as no generic code is affected. On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 03:51:24PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Yes, but this means a potential need for

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:28:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:40:36PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I have to update the marvell-pegasos.dpatch patch, and this would thus > > warrant > > either a kernel-source upload or an addition of a patch patching the abov

Re: New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:40:36PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I have to update the marvell-pegasos.dpatch patch, and this would thus warrant > either a kernel-source upload or an addition of a patch patching the above > patch in the powerpc kernel-patch. > I have upto now refrained from doing the

New kernel-source-2.6.7 upload ?

2004-08-05 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, I have to update the marvell-pegasos.dpatch patch, and this would thus warrant either a kernel-source upload or an addition of a patch patching the above patch in the powerpc kernel-patch. I have upto now refrained from doing the upload, since the changes there where mostly powerpc specifi

Bug#263169: loadmodules incomplete

2004-08-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Jens, Jens Schmalzing wrote: Hi, Harald Dunkel writes: the patch [...] looks into /proc/modules (the user space interface for module management) to get a list of loaded modules. This only works if you are building an initrd for a kernel with the exact same module configuration. The module conf

Bug#263169: loadmodules incomplete

2004-08-05 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Harald Dunkel writes: > the patch [...] looks into /proc/modules (the user space interface > for module management) to get a list of loaded modules. This only works if you are building an initrd for a kernel with the exact same module configuration. > On the other side, the current mkinitrd

Re: Reducing the number of kernels

2004-08-05 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-30 23:57]: > > > What needs to be done to update alpha? > > > > http://people.debian.org/~nobse/kernel-image-2.6.7-alpha/ > > I'm still waiting for feedback. > > Has anyone reviewed or tested them in the meantime? I go

Bug#256113: /proc/scsi for sata_sil

2004-08-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
This is /proc/scsi for my PC (booted from a disk managed by sata_sil): # ls -ld $(find /proc/scsi ) dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Aug 5 08:32 /proc/scsi -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 5 08:32 /proc/scsi/device_info -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Aug 5 08:32 /proc/scsi/scsi dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Aug 5

Bug#263169: loadmodules incomplete

2004-08-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-08-03 10:36]: Attached you can find a patch. This looks like a hack to me which works around the real problem. See maybe #256113. I don't see that the patch is a hack. It looks into /proc/modules (the user space interface for modul

Re: add Packet Writing support to CD-RW DVD-RW

2004-08-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:46:08AM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > Package: kernel > Version: unknown > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > X-Debbugs-CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please add Packet Writing support to debian kernel for CD-RW DVD-RW: > Home: http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/packet.html > Pa