Bug#495358: The Debian kernel has a buggy b43 driver

2008-08-16 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Package: kernel Version: 2.6.24-1-686 Right now the Debian b43 driver is in 4th place in the kerneloops.org statistics with the following backtrace: WARNING: at drivers/ssb/main.c:883 ssb_tmslow_reject_bitmask() Pid: 3259, comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 2.6.24-1-486 #1 [] ssb_tmslow_reject_bit

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > I agree. And that really doesn't need a lot of infrastructure, > > basically just a tarball that unpacks to /lib/firmware, maybe a specfile > > and debian/ dir in addition. > > > At the moment there is -zero- infrastructure that would allow my tg3 to > continue working, when I upgrade to a

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Second step is to make the built-in firmware a > > config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for > > firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver > > entirely. > > I think the infrasturcture is quite mature. We have a lot of drivers > that requi

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > > I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ > > weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people > > are just fed up of pe

Re: NMU: kernel

2004-05-22 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 02:19:19PM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > [snip] > > No need for excuses. In my eyes, all architectures are on equal footing. > > I would like to inspire a unified effort, regardless of the fact that it > > may involve no specific change in dire