Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On the git repository, per Ah, git. That's an improvement, Thanks. Sorry, I wasn't following the kernel handbook ml.

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530 +++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0530 @@ -176,7 +176,16 @@ target_arch_featureset_flavour. R

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 12:00:48AM +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml > >--- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530 > >+++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:49:03

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 13:08 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 11:47 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > > I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this: > > > > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mit

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 11:47 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this: > > > On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml > >> --- a

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Ben, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530 +++ b/chapter-commo

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml > --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530 > +++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 01:52 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: Yes, I saw that when I checked your svn repos. You forgot (or intentionally omitted, but if so, said nothing) to add the bit about the linux-headers-common to 4.2. See the relevant portion of my

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 01:52 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 13:35 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> > >>> On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> > I think this is jus

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 13:35 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think it's necessary to explain ABI maintena

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-30 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 13:35 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >> I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think > >> it's necessary to explain ABI maintenance in this much detail, tha

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think it's necessary to explain ABI maintenance in this much detail, that probably belongs in a new chapter. Ok. Well, feel free to take it ou

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think it's necessary to explain ABI maintenance in this much detail, that probably belongs in a new chapter. Ok. Well, feel free to take it out then. In any case, I hope you will apply s

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 22:56 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > > I've made some more changes - mostly additions - to your patch. > [snippage] > > Oops, I accidentally included some redundant stuff. Resending > corrected patch. > >

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: I've made some more changes - mostly additions - to your patch. [snippage] Oops, I accidentally included some redundant stuff. Resending corrected patch. Regards, Faheem diff -r 657cba972ce9 -r 4f9540ff7

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Ben, On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 05:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I've attempted to document this, since it currently does not appear to be. See patch to kernel handbook below. I'm sure I'm made errors, so corrections, please. [...] Thanks. I'l

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 02:41 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] If I understand this correctly, altering the config changes the kernel ABI. Sometimes. If an exported function is conditional on CONFIG_FOO, or it uses a type whose definition depends on

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 05:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > I've attempted to document this, since it currently does not appear to be. > > See patch to kernel handbook below. I'm sure I'm made errors, so > > corrections, please. > [...] > > Thanks. I'll apply something like that, but chan

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 02:41 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] > If I understand this correctly, altering the config changes the kernel > ABI. Sometimes. If an exported function is conditional on CONFIG_FOO, or it uses a type whose definition depends on CONFIG_FOO, then turning CONFIG_FOO on or of

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: Well, I followed your instructions, and they seemed to work, though I have not tested the resulting kernel. Addendum: I get this error when trying to install dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-2.6.26-custom1.0-686-bigme

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:58 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:39 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings w

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:39 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi, Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sour

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:58 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:39 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >> > >> On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> > >>> On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:39 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sources from lenny on s

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi, Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sources from lenny on squeeze fails with the following below. The only change I made was to set CONFIG_SY

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sources from lenny on squeeze fails with the > > following below. The only change I made was to set > > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=n. See

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: > Hi, > > Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sources from lenny on squeeze fails with the > following below. The only change I made was to set > CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=n. See patch below. The command I used was > > fakeroot make KDEB_PKGVERSI

building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sources from lenny on squeeze fails with the following below. The only change I made was to set CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2=n. See patch below. The command I used was fakeroot make KDEB_PKGVERSION=custom.1.0 -f debian/rules.gen binary-arch_i386_none_686-bigm