Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-10-05 Thread Russ Allbery
been ABI updates anyway, particularly in stable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl writes: > Am 10.05.2018 um 19:22 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> I may be misunderstanding the nature of the issue, but I believe that a >> Type=oneshot service that runs a small C program that calls getrandom() >> and then exit(0) when it returns would provide a use

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
ide to take this approach (this seems obviously correct for kadmind, for instance), having this sort of facility available would make it easy to declare the right dependency. It's akin to systemd-networkd-wait-online.service. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#733521: linux-image-3.12-1-amd64: System76 Gazelle Pro crashes on hibernate

2013-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Oh, one additional piece of information that may be relevant here: this system uses disk encryption as set up by the Debian installer, which includes encryption of the swap partition (and therefore of the hibernate image). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.

Re: Bug#686436: openafs-modules-dkms: Does not build with squeeze kernel: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > [...] >> linux-libc-dev maintainers, when upgrading to squeeze, there is >> currently nothing preventing linux-libc-dev from being upgraded to a >> version that uses multiarch paths in

Re: Bug#686436: openafs-modules-dkms: Does not build with squeeze kernel: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
affected dkms, since dkms runs a compiler from postinst scripts. I believe linux-libc-dev needs the same Breaks logic as libc6-dev, namely something like: Breaks: gcc-4.4 (<< 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 (<< 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 (<< 4.6.0-12) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
ped building my own kernel a long time ago, so most of my understanding is hearsay. I keep maintaining -source packages for other packages with kernel modules mostly because I keep getting a small number of bug reports for them, so people are clearly still using them. -- Russ Allbery (r..

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
t doing this. I noticed that dkms now Recommends the tracking kernel header package, so maybe that makes this somewhat more obsolete. That means that the average user should, through the dependency tree, get the header package installed when they install nvidia-modules-dkms, whic

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
ted Debian users. What Andreas has been doing, which I think is fairly reasonable, is keeping them out of testing until shortly before the freeze and then updating them for the freeze, which means only doing new uploads for ABI changes that happen during the freeze or in stable (relativel

Bug#657802: nfs-kernel-server: NFSv4 kerberos mount stopped working after upgrade to 6.0.4 point release

2012-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
RCFOUR_HMAC ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_MD5 ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_CRC ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_MD4 which is indeed every enctype that you're ever likely to care about. So just omitting the -e flag would be correct with that set of supported enctypes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/&

Bug#657802: nfs-kernel-server: NFSv4 kerberos mount stopped working after upgrade to 6.0.4 point release

2012-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
which case the right thing to do is to just leave off the -e flag completely and let the Kerberos infrastructure use whatever its default configured enctype list is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ke

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
c.svcgssd isn't supporting arcfour-hmac for some reason. Maybe you don't have the backported version of everything and your daemon still only supports DES somehow? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
n* run klist -e and look at what encryption type the service ticket for nfs/archiv.sag.local@SAG.LOCAL has. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
1:28 11/15/11 08:51:36 krbtgt/SAG.LOCAL@SAG.LOCAL > renew until 11/15/11 22:51:28 It would be more interesting to run klist -e after attempting to contact the server, so that you can see what the encryption type of the service ticket for the NFS server was. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
e NFS machinery is going to need to support either arcfour-hmac or aes128, since Windows never supported 3DES, and you don't want to use plain DES any more (and it has to be specifically enabled on the Windows side, if they haven't dropped it entirely now). I'm not sure what en

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2011-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
it right now for multiple packages. But writing the original -source package rules file is arcane and very under-documented, so this is potentially a long-term improvement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2011-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings writes: > On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> With hundreds of servers, we'd rather not install compilers and DKMS on >> every one of them, and with lots of machines, the loss of >> reproducibility from separately compiling the module

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2011-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
new ABI. (So thank you very much for all the work that you put into maintaining the ABI!) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
rting any major change in how this is handled. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
t mainstream. We think that may be fixed upstream now, although we're not sure because none of the people currently working on the NVIDIA packages have a Xen host to test with. (It at least compiles, which it didn't do before.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) &

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
se a single ABI number across all image > packages so there is no indication of when the ABI changes for them. Thanks! I'll get those kernel module builds removed before squeeze releases. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSU

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
maximilian attems writes: > On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:51:33AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Does this change mean that the module builds for Xen and OpenVZ kernels >> may not continue working with later versions of those kernels because >> the ABI might not be stable? Or i

Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
y about? I ask primarily because we want to be sure it makes sense to release pre-built modules for Xen and OpenVZ kernels with squeeze. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.

Bug#556009: ath9k disassociates frequently, regression from 2.6.30

2010-05-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal There were apparently multiple problems involved here, and the upstream bug is still open, so I'm not sure whether you want to close this. But for the record, my problems were completely resolved by 2.6.32 and have not recurred. -- System Information: Debian R

Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
e using libtool to do their linking. The latest GNU libtools (>= 1.3a) can take advantage of the metadata in the Please copy 519...@bugs.debian.org on all discussion. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
an adapt, so since this change is intentional, no point in having the kernel team read through the AFS-specific details. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
it eventually, but I don't have the new kbuild infrastructure installed anywhere yet.) rx may require similar treatment. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#521515: Fwd: Re: Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
f the kernel > without using kbuild. OpenAFS *does* use kbuild. Aaron, what exactly breaks? Example error messages? Is it just the symlinking to standardize the names of the header files across platforms that doesn't work? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie

Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
makes this trickier. What's the intended use of the new layout in these packages? Are modules expected to provide a search path for include files rather than assuming headers are in one unified location? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
unfortunately I don't have a lot of time to try to help propose and develop the standard and test the implications. It may end up being somewhat moot anyway since we have at least one report that a new kernel module does indeed require a new openafs-client -- I'm going to check with u

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
separate locations? All that's in the package is a tarball in /usr/src (it's the standard module build pattern). If it were called something other than openafs.tar.gz or expanded into a different directory, wouldn't that confuse tools like module-assistant? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAI

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
dann frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:48:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm quite happy to upload new packages for etchnhalf, but I'm afraid >> they'd have to be just that -- packages of a newer upstream. The >> ups

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
n going to the current packages from Debian testing. So... I guess my question is, what is the policy for etchnhalf for packages that involve kernel modules? Is it fair game to upload a new upstream version, unlike the normal stable release policies? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
ree kernel modules are not all proprietary crap. Some of them are not GPL for reasons that have nothing to do with vendors and supposed trade secrets; in this case, it was because OpenAFS is a huge body of code that acquired hundreds or thousands of independent submissions under the IBM Public Lice

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
management reasons. If the decision of the Debian kernel team is that the interface is actually stable and ready to be exported, it seems reasonable to also reverse the patch that declared it not to be. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
maximilian attems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > kvm is a too interesting tech to be disabled, > checkout buildserver trunk builds to see if it is solved in 2.6.21-rcX > -> wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel Okay, we'll check. Thanks. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.20-2 Severity: important The 2.6.20 kernels in unstable for 686 and k7 have CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled. This apparently redefines various operations widely used by kernel modules (or included via inlined functions) to redirect through a paravirts_ops table, but the par

Re: 2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
tch up with all the API changes. For full 2.6.19 support on all platforms I believe I'd need to pull patches from CVS for OpenAFS, whereas the current packages are stable and functioning on 2.6.18. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- T

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
you're talking about may fall into this category, but this distinction seems to be lost in this thread and I don't want people to miss it. It *does* happen that the concept of source isn't overly meaningful for some things. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://ww