Bug#463425: Patch proposed upstream

2008-11-20 Thread Larry Doolittle
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:10:34PM -0800, Larry Doolittle wrote: > I can confirm that AR5212 doesn't work as-is on Lenny. Never mind. User error. An AR5212 (pci id 168c:0013 (rev 01)) works for me now on linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 version 2.6.26-10. - Larry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#463425: Patch proposed upstream

2008-11-17 Thread Larry Doolittle
An apparently successful patch has been worked out upstream. See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/22825/focus=22840 The concluding patch for 2.6.27 was posted From: Elias Oltmanns Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k: Fix reset sequence for AR5212 in general and RF5111 in pa

Bug#434040: Debian bug #434040 (Conflicting declarations for dev_t)

2008-10-22 Thread Larry Doolittle
Josselin - > Is there anything that is possible to help fixing this before the > release? My reading of header files shows that libc6-dev in etch, lenny, and sid does not suffer from the original problem. The files that include a workaround (ugly, but apparently functional) for possible namespac

Bug#242866: Closure

2008-05-15 Thread Larry Doolittle
you don't like me acting as a messenger in this case, tough noogies. I didn't write the DFSG. The real blame here lies with Linus's historical sloppiness in accepting non-DFSG-free code. I hear he has improved his process this past couple of years. - Larry Doolittle [*] and yes

Bug#455909: tracking down misaligned memory accesses

2007-12-12 Thread Larry Doolittle
Martin - > After running for a mere 20 hours, /proc/cpu/alignment reports > millions of misaligned word accesses from the kernel: > System: 2765980 After checking 2.6.23 from unstable as maks suggested, please report back more detail on the hardware you have in service. I have seen an AR

Attaboy to the kernel team for 2.6.23-1

2007-12-07 Thread Larry Doolittle
I want to give a public "Attaboy" http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attaboy to the kernel team, esepcially maks, for the 2.6.23-1 release. I'm running it now on AMD64/K8T800Pro with RTL-8169, RV280, etc. No problems at all. The list of bug fixes and improvements listed in the Changelog is mind-bog

Bug#383403: linux-2.6: includes nondistributable and non-free binary firmware

2006-08-16 Thread Larry Doolittle
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.1 The following 59 files, found in Debian's linux-2.6_2.6.17.orig.tar.gz, apparently contain software in binary form, for which Debian has no corresponding source code. Debian policy states that "The program must include source code, a