Re: kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

Hi, Sven Luther wrote: > Once this problem is solved, the removed modules (tg3 and some > others), will be uploaded to non-free, including as .udeb form, and > you will just need to install them from there, and be happy, or > decide you don't like non-free drivers and not buy broadcom chipsets > i

Bug#295422: e2fsprogs for Sarge

Hi Ted, I hope that all is well. I am writing to you about an old problem with the e2fsprogs that has unfortunately resurfaced in testing and I am looking for some advice on the best way forward. In a nutshell the problem is bug 295422. You fixed this in e2fsprogs 0.35-7, a versioned dependancy w

Re: debian-installer and kernel status (pre- and post-sarge) on sparc

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:55:48PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Horms, > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:34:34PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > I have been looking into the Blade1500 clock chip problem on request > > from Dave Miller. It seems that while we have a solution in the pipeline > > for 2.4.27,

Bug#303501: CAN-2005-0750: Bluetooth root exploit due to boundary checking

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: critical Justification: root security hole USN-103-1 says this: > Ilja van Sprundel discovered that the bluez_sock_create() function did > not check its "protocol" argument for negative values. A local > attacker could exploit this to execut

Bug#303498: CAN-2005-0749: Elf Binary Loading Local DoS

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: important SecurityFocus http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12935/discussion/ has the following: > It is reported that issue exists in the 'load_elf_library' function. > Linux Kernel 2.6.11.5 and prior versions are affected by this issue. Ubun

Bug#303500: CAN-2005-0400: EXT2 File System Information Leak Vulnerability

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: normal Information leak in ext2 code. Quoting from USN-103-1: >Mathieu Lafon discovered an information leak in the ext2 file system >driver. When a new directory was created, the ext2 block written to >disk was not initialized, so that previ

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

On Llu, 2005-04-04 at 21:47, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bluntly, Debian is being a pain in the ass ;-) > > There will always be non-free firmware to deal with, for key hardware. Firmware being seperate does make a lot of sense. It isn't going away but it doesn't generally belong in kernel now we have i

Bug#303491: MACE not detected by kernel/initrd

Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc Version: 2.6.10-2 Severity: important The onboard MACE ethernet MAC of the ANS is not detected by the kernel/initrd. As a result the MACE driver module is not loaded. The MACE ethernet MAC is part of the grand central ASIC and lives at address 0xf3008200 - 0xf

Bug#303490: tulip driver doesn't open loop on Apple 100BaseT ethernet card

Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-powerpc Version: 2.6.10-2 Severity: important The tulip driver should open the loopback on the Apple 100BaseT ethernet card when bringing up the interface. Otherwise the interface is unusable for normal traffic. This can be done by writing 0x10f and 0x3 to CSR12. It's

Bug#67718: Where were you today?

Good day, Check for more info below: http://appreciatrust.info Thanks Alot, Jamar Hilton CUSTOM_SENTENCES. Haven't you liked walking?. green mango green grape orange apple yellow plum red grape red peach Don't you practice dancing as often as possible?. Then I started 'teaching'. You know, I

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

Sven Luther wrote: Hello, [..] Plans on my part for 2.6 powerpc kernels are : 1) abandonement of the ppc32 power3 and power4 kernels in favour of ppc64 variants. mkay, this looks bad to my eyes. Does this mean that there is no more support for these variants in upstream, also? I have a Power

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 12:13:31AM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >Hello, > > > > [..] > > >Plans on my part for 2.6 powerpc kernels are : > > > > 1) abandonement of the ppc32 power3 and power4 kernels in favour of ppc64 > > variants. > > > > mkay, this looks bad to my eye

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

> Josselin Mouette wrote: > >It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two > >works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and > >separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which > >you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts.

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Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 302281 kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 Bug#302281: lspci can't find IDE HD. It's the kernel's fault. Warning: Unknown package 'kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386' Bug reassigned from package `kernel-image-2.6.8-1-386' to `kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386'. > reassig

Re: debian-installer and kernel status (pre- and post-sarge) on sparc

Horms, On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 04:34:34PM +0900, Horms wrote: > I have been looking into the Blade1500 clock chip problem on request > from Dave Miller. It seems that while we have a solution in the pipeline > for 2.4.27, that is getting kernel-image-sparc 2.4.27-9 into testing and > d-i once gluc

Bug#303426: kernel-source-2.6.8: ext3 xattr/dquot reports incorrect quota

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: normal Tags: patch There is a subtle bug in error handling of ext2 and ext3 xattrs. When ext2_sync_inode() or ext3_xattr_block_set() fails because it could not write the inode's dirty data (ENOSPC), it doesn't keep the xattrs in a consistent

Bug#303424: kernel-source-2.6.8: spinlock assert can crash kernel when compiled with up/spinlock_debug

Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: normal Tags: patch If you set in the config CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y and have CONFIG_SMP=n then the various spinlock checks in the kernel can cause the kernel to crash, an example of one of these spinlock checks is the code: BUG_ON(!spin_is_

Bug#303403: System asks for passphrase on bootup when root isn't encrypted

Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.77 Severity: important When a new kernel (2.6.11-2) is installed on a system with cryptsetup (20050111-3) installed, rebooting causes the system to request a passphrase before init starts. This system does not have an encrypted root filesystem, and simply pressi

Bug#303401: mkinitrd fails with cryptsetup and libdevmapper1.01

Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.77 Severity: important Line 385 of mkinitrd contains a reference to /lib/libdevmapper.so.1.00; this code is run when cryptsetup is installed, presumably to handle encrypted root filesystems. However, the current version of cryptsetup in sarge (20050111-3) depend

Re: kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:46:08 +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi, > i've read here http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...3/msg00412.html > that the > Debian team has decided to wipe out the Broadcom tg3 module from the > 2.6.11 and fol

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:39:09PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > > problem, or the ones discussing it. > > Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some

Re: kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 16:46 +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi, > i've read here http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...3/msg00412.html > that the Debian team has decided to wipe out the Broadcom tg3 module > from the 2.6.11 and following releases. I've a laptop which uses this > card to connect to a

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

On Tue, 5 April 2005 15:28:01 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > * Firmwares such as tg3 should be shipped with the kernel tarball. As in /usr/src/linux/firmware/tg3.tar? Would be a simple patch to add that one. Jörn -- The cost of changing business rules is much more expensive for software than f

Bug#290708: initrd-tools: dm-crypt devices initialized with wrong arguments for cryptsetup

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 17:38:50 +0100, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 03:42:50PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Maybe the information in /etc/crypttab should be used the same way as in > > > the initscript to contruct the command line for cryptsetup. > > > > Wesley, can

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 09:34:44AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 à 02:10 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > > It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two > > > works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and > > > separated. This

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

Le mercredi 06 avril 2005 à 02:10 +0200, Sven Luther a écrit : > > It merely depends on the definition of "aggregation". I'd say that two > > works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and > > separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which > > you cannot easi

Re: debian-installer and kernel status (pre- and post-sarge) on sparc

Hi, I have been looking into the Blade1500 clock chip problem on request from Dave Miller. It seems that while we have a solution in the pipeline for 2.4.27, that is getting kernel-image-sparc 2.4.27-9 into testing and d-i once gluck comes back, the same cannot be said for 2.6.8. I had a quick lo