Re: [PATCH] module: Enable dynamic debugging regardless of taint

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:59:33 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Dynamic debugging is currently disabled for tainted modules, except > for TAINT_CRAP. This prevents use of dynamic debugging for > out-of-tree modules now that they are also tainted. > > This condition was apparently intended to avoid a

Bug#647249: linux-image-3.0.0-2-amd64: Dell Inspiron Mini 1018 is no longer able to enable wireless

2011-10-31 Thread Fernando C. Estrada
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 3.0.0-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, After I disable wireless via network-manager-gnome, I can't enable it again, I guess Fn+F2 does not disable rfkill as it should. # ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill # rfkill list

Bug#631664: Wishlist: Add support for software-rf-switch in Fujitsu-Siemens notebook

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 18:30 +0100, Tino Schmidt wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 22:25 +0200, Tino Schmidt wrote: > > [...] > > > >> Hi, > >> I'm sorry for the long delay but I can use the laptop only on weekend. > >> Here is the output: > >> > >> # modprobe wistron_btns force=1 > >> FATAL: Err

[PATCH] module: Enable dynamic debugging regardless of taint

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
Dynamic debugging is currently disabled for tainted modules, except for TAINT_CRAP. This prevents use of dynamic debugging for out-of-tree modules now that they are also tainted. This condition was apparently intended to avoid a crash if a force- loaded module has an incompatible definition of dy

Uploading linux-2.6 (3.0.0-6)

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
I intend to upload linux-2.6 version 3.0.0-6 to unstable today (Tuesday). This will include stable updates 3.0.7 and 3.0.8 and may require an ABI change (I haven't checked yet). It should fix the missing kernel-image udebs in 3.0.0-5, among other things. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not

Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Re-enable dynamic debugging for GPL-compatible OOT modules

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:44:17 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 12:29 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings > > wrote: > > > Dynamic debugging was enabled for GPL-compatible out-of-tree modules > > > unt

Bug#647136: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: psmouse.c bad data from KBD bad parity

2011-10-31 Thread Arvind K
On 31 October 2011 14:57, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Arvind K wrote: > > > -By modprobe psmouse I meant that, whenever the touchpad stops working, I > > have to run the following: > > $sudo modprobe -r psmouse > > $sudo modprobe psmouse > > I see. > > [...] > > [36521.371269] psmouse.c: bad data fr

Bug#631664: Wishlist: Add support for software-rf-switch in Fujitsu-Siemens notebook

2011-10-31 Thread Tino Schmidt
On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 22:25 +0200, Tino Schmidt wrote: [...] Hi, I'm sorry for the long delay but I can use the laptop only on weekend. Here is the output: # modprobe wistron_btns force=1 FATAL: Error inserting wistron_btns (/lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/input/misc/wistron_btns.

Bug#646889: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: Since I'm using nfsd instead of samba a kerneloops occurs when accessing the files on server

2011-10-31 Thread Marc Matzen
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:55 + Ben Hutchings wrote: > Different problem. For some reason the network stack is reallocating > a large buffer. You may be able to work around this by disabling TSO > (ethtool -K eth0 tso off). I’ll give it a try. > But I wonder why it's necessary to reallocat

Bug#647185: linux-2.6: kernel null pointer dereference while adding SAN path

2011-10-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-38 Hi, removing paths to our SAN and adding them back results in [ 951.569561] device-mapper: table: 253:2: sde too small for target: start=0, len=140465493850188, dev_size=627107840 [ 951.571750] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (nul

Re: gcc-4.6

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2011-10-28 at 20:53 +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > Hi > > On Friday 28 October 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 06:39:13PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > We need to bump the compiler before the Wheezy release to 4.6. > > > Preliminary tests

Bug#646889: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686: Since I'm using nfsd instead of samba a kerneloops occurs when accessing the files on server

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 11:45 +0100, Marc Matzen wrote: > Hi, > > I have applied the patch and a memory allocation failure still > occurs (swapper instead of nfsd). Different problem. For some reason the network stack is reallocating a large buffer. You may be able to work around this by disablin

Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Re-enable dynamic debugging for GPL-compatible OOT modules

2011-10-31 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-10-31 at 12:29 +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings > wrote: > > Dynamic debugging was enabled for GPL-compatible out-of-tree modules > > until my addition of TAINT_OOT_MODULE. It should continue to be > > enabled now. > > Please just remo

Processed: Re: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2011-10-31 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > tags 532005 + patch Bug #532005 [linux-2.6] PC speaker bell makes a hideous buzzing honk, not a nice beep (HDA digital beep should not override actual pc speaker) Added tag(s) patch. > quit Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need

Bug#532005: gnome: Bell beep on PC speaker no longer works

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
tags 532005 + patch quit Hi, Matthew Wakeling wrote: > Today I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The console beep no longer works. > Some hideous sound now emerges from the sound card instead. Reproduced on an HP G71-445US laptop. The honk that replaced the bell is like a quick buzzer sound. Co

Bug#647095: CPU hyperthreading turned on after soft power-cycle

2011-10-31 Thread Clarinet
On 10/30/2011 4:25 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 07:05 -0400, Jiri Polach wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.39-3~bpo60+1 Severity: normal When the computer is turned off using "shutdown -h" or "halt" command, the hypertherading BIOS setting is changed - even if hyperthera

Re: [kernel] r18204 - in dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/installer: alpha/modules/alpha amd64/modules/amd64 armel/modules/armel-iop32x armel/modules/armel-kirkwood armel/modules/armel-orion5x armhf/modules

2011-10-31 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 04:05:27AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Add empty files to trigger generation of kernel-image udebs linux-2.6 is still a version 1 source package. Empty files won't survive. Bastian -- Without freedom of choice there is no creativity. -- Kirk, "The retur

Bug#647136: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: psmouse.c bad data from KBD bad parity

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Arvind K wrote: > -By modprobe psmouse I meant that, whenever the touchpad stops working, I > have to run the following: > $sudo modprobe -r psmouse > $sudo modprobe psmouse I see. [...] > [36521.371269] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - bad parity > [36521.373636] psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - ba

Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: Re-enable dynamic debugging for GPL-compatible OOT modules

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:38:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Dynamic debugging was enabled for GPL-compatible out-of-tree modules > until my addition of TAINT_OOT_MODULE. It should continue to be > enabled now. Please just remove the test entirely. AFAICT there's nothing unique to dynamic debug w

Re: [PATCH] module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:55:28 -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 11:41:37AM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > I think we need a "taint_string()" function, and instead of lockdep > > disabling itself it should note the taint string in its reports. > > Similarly for anything else

Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep,rtmutex,bug: Show taint flags on error

2011-10-31 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 04:36:55 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently lock debugging is disabled when the kernel is tainted, with > a few exceptions. It is already recognised that this can be useful > for staging modules (TAINT_CRAP), but that also goes for out-of-tree > modules (TAINT_OOT_MODULE)