Bug#788290: Please enable CONFIG_IMA

2015-06-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: src:linux Severity: wishlist Hi, Could you please enable CONFIG_IMA in the kernel? Ubuntu kernels have it enabled, and I think they satisfied themselves regarding the performance impact in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1244627 -- System Information: Debian Releas

Bug#588200: linux-2.6: Please enable CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS

2010-07-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-15 Severity: wishlist Hi, The CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS option enables some cool functionality[1], could the Debian kernel please have it enabled? [1] http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2010/07/01/reporting-all-execs/ -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5

Re: Observation re third parties supporting Debian kernels

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:58:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:02:57PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I attended a product briefing at Computer Associates on Thursday, and one of > > the products that was discussed more than

Re: Observation re third parties supporting Debian kernels

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 12:58:40PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:02:57PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I attended a product briefing at Computer Associates on Thursday, and one of > > the products that was discussed

Observation re third parties supporting Debian kernels

2005-09-24 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I attended a product briefing at Computer Associates on Thursday, and one of the products that was discussed more than demonstrated was something called eTrust Access Control[1], which, from my interpretation, sounds like it achieves something similar to what SE Linux probably does. That's not

Re: 2.6.12 is in testing

2005-09-19 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:53:30AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > If the kernel team would really like to handle issues like detecting > whether an i386 machine running a UP kernel is SMP, I'd be very happy > for the code for that to move there. However, I don't think the 1:1 > subarch mapping you de

Bug#307310: kernel: Please apply the MPPE patch

2005-05-02 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 07:49:44AM +1000, Horms wrote: > On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:12:48PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > Package: kernel > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Could you please add the kernel-patch-mppe patch to the patches that are > > made again

Bug#307310: kernel: Please apply the MPPE patch

2005-05-02 Thread Andrew Pollock
Package: kernel Severity: wishlist Could you please add the kernel-patch-mppe patch to the patches that are made against the upstream kernel source for future Debian kernel-image packages? Thanks Andrew -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testin

Who should be maintaining kernel-patch-powerpc-{2.4.27,2.6.8}?

2005-05-02 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi Sven, You've orphaned kernel-patch-powerpc-2.4.27 and kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.8, and I'm a bit confused by the text of #303024 and #303021 Who in your mind should be listed as the maintainer of these packages if not either yourself or the Debian Kernel Team? They've been orphaned for nearly

Re: permanent load ide modules

2005-03-09 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:09:40PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > This is a bug in initrd-tools, which altough it knows how to detect the needed > ide driver for your hardware, insists on loading all of them. I believe this > should be solved before the sarge release. > > jbailey, could you commen

Re: Kernel Version Specific scripts/ is required

2005-02-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:20:10PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > As a work around try defining the dummy > symbols in your module's .c files somewhere. Here is what they used > to look like. > > void cleanup_module(void) > { > } > > int init_module(void) > { > return 0; > } > No joy. Got an

Re: Problems (re)building ipw2200 against 2.6.10

2005-02-05 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:04:42AM +1100, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > As I documented in my blog[1], I struck some problems building the latest > ipw2200 module against the kernel headers provided with 2.6.10. I also > couldn't rebuild older versions (that had successful

Problems (re)building ipw2200 against 2.6.10

2005-02-04 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, As I documented in my blog[1], I struck some problems building the latest ipw2200 module against the kernel headers provided with 2.6.10. I also couldn't rebuild older versions (that had successfully built in the past). Is this a problem with the kernel headers or with the ipw2200 module? (I'

Re: Simultaneous loading of e100 and eepro100 by hotplug

2004-12-01 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:51:28PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 01 d??cembre 2004 ?? 18:48 +0900, Horms a ??crit : > > > Another example are the Realtek 8149 drivers. I had to blacklist one > > > of the drivers. This chipset is really common. So many people will > > > have to do t

Why does do_bootloaded default to no in /etc/kernel-img.conf?

2004-10-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
Hi, I've found it rather vexing that I've needed to run update-grub explicitly after installing a new kernel on systems that I've recently installed. Today, I finally looked into the matter. So on a system that doesn't have an /etc/kernel-img.conf, the postinst of the first kernel-image package

Bug#258204: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686: swsusp is missing

2004-07-08 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:15:15AM +0200, Wesley W. Terpstra wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 > Version: 2.6.7-1 > Severity: normal > > Hi, I am running kernel-image-2.6.7-1-686 and using software suspend. > Unfortunately, the 'swsusp' module is missing and /proc/acpi/sleep does > nothin

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:19:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:59:10PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:45:25AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Yeah, but what about 2.6 for powerpc and x86 (and maybe some ot

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-06-30 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:45:25AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Yeah, but what about 2.6 for powerpc and x86 (and maybe some other who > is ready) and 2.4 for the rest of it (and 2.2 for some m68k subarches). > > I believe now is the time to take that decision, it may even be too late > already,

Re: Open a discussion about bug 253324

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:54:23PM +0200, Bluefuture wrote: > I want to "open" a discussion about this bug on the debian-kernel > mailing list: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=253224 > Ah yes. Herbert had quite strong views on what should and shouldn't be done in the kernel, d

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-06-29 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:40:15AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 11:55:19PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 04:10:32PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > >> Sounds good. We should move to the 2.6.7 debs ASAP so this should keep > > >> the t

Re: current firmware blacklist

2004-06-16 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:06:11PM -0400, Robert Goley wrote: > I am not trying to debate the firmware subject but I would like a little > information. I know that there are issues with linking binary > (non-free) with certain drivers. What is the exact procedure that will > be used with these dr

Re: Should we remove raidtools?

2004-06-10 Thread Andrew Pollock
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:37:42PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Andrew Pollock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [040610 09:40]: > > Do we need to have three different RAID packages in sarge? > > > > >From the package description, it's only necessary for unpatched 2.2 >