Re: realtime-lsm and Debian kernel

2005-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 08:25:49AM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > It appears that this change was done with svn commit 4206, which moved all > the security related config settings to the common config file. I'm CCing > Bastian Blank who made this change, so that he can comment on wh

Re: realtime-lsm and Debian kernel

2005-10-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 04:23:04PM +0200, Guenter Geiger wrote: > For most of the time this has actually been the case for Debian kernels, > unfortunately these setting seem to have changed, so that with the new > 2.6.13 release the capability.ko is compiled into the kernel, which makes > it impo

Re: Bringing the 2.6.13 (and beyond) kernel to sid, solving ramdisk generations issues and stuff.

2005-10-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:19:04PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > the plan for solving the ramdisk issues is done in three stages, current svn > 2.6.13 packages implement stage 1, i have patches for both initrd-tools and > initramfs-tools in svn, and the yaird folk adapted it for yaird, so we may go >

Re: Bug#331391: Re: ftpmaster: Please remove 2.6.8 kernel images

2005-10-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:51:37PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > One solution would be for each kernel to provide a virtual > linux-abi-, and have each module package [build-]depend on it or > something such, in a way similar to how ocaml handles its abi versioning. Need > some thoughts still. A dep

Re: 2.6.14-rc4 patch audit

2005-10-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 07:43:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > In the light of this, i would indeed vote to move our package to 2.6.14-rc4 > (versioned at 2.6.13.99.rc4 or something, and maybe with 2.6.14-0 abi name), 2.6.13+2.6.14-r4 or 2.6.14~rc4, I don't know if the later is now supported by da

Re: 2.6.14-rc4 patch audit

2005-10-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:22:30PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > I think to remember that ~ is only allowed for etch+1, since we need to handle > sarge->etch upgrades. not sure about dak though. AFAIK sarge supports ~ in the tools, but dak does not. Bastian -- You! What PLANET is this!

Bug#334273: linux-image-2.6.13-1-686: /etc/init.d/dbus-1 causes kernel oops

2005-10-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 08:18:49PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Oct 16 19:04:15 feivel kernel: EIP:0060:[sysfs_release+59/128] > Tainted: PF VLI Proprietary module and forced module load. Fix that first. Bastian -- The heart is not a logical organ. -- Dr. Janet Wal

Re: Ramdisk generation tool migration and 2.6.14-rc4 status report (Was: Bringing the 2.6.13 (and beyond) kernel to sid, solving ramdisk generations issues and stuff.)

2005-10-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 12:52:09AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > - initramfs-tools needs to be uploaded, it seems to wait for mklibs in NEW, > but i was able to build it just fine, no idea what is going on here. This is fixed since yesterday. Bastian -- It is undignified for a woman to play

Bug#334273: linux-image-2.6.13-1-686: /etc/init.d/dbus-1 causes kernel oops

2005-10-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:55:35AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Sorry, my fault. I sent in the wrong oops. Actually the oops made me try > nv again and since it works correctly with my card now I was finally > able to get rid of nvidia. Even this oops shows a tainted kernel. Bastian -- Ahead

debian-kernel archive

2005-10-18 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I build a debian-kernel archive which will contain source and binary snapshots of our kernel packages and neccesary packages to do cross compilation. It is located on http://137.250.31.225/debian-kernel. Available distributions are for now sid and trunk, which matches the dists in the r

Re: debian-kernel archive

2005-10-18 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:23:01PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > Seems like a reasonable thing to add to the kernel.alioth.debian.org > infrastructure (with an appropriate named dist), if you're interested - > unless you want to minimize public exposure of course. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-

Re: debian-kernel archive

2005-10-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:26:17PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > To clarify; I've a lightweight system of my own I've thrown on there - > see my announcement e-mail above for instructions on using it. Pardon, this system is not appropriate for what I want to do. - It lacks any locking which makes

Re: 2.6.14-rc5 and version number thingy ...

2005-10-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:22:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > But apparently this caused build problems in the arch-indep part, which was > fixed one time by Simon Horman, and then refixed another way by Bastian Blank. No. The arch-indep part was something else: kernel-package decided t

Fixed in upload of linux-2.6 2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4-0experimental.1 to experimental

2005-10-22 Thread Bastian Blank
by one). * Add Simon Horman, Sven Luther and myself as Uploaders. . [ Bastian Blank ] * Use list of revisions in patch scripts. * Use correct names for tarball and scripts. Files: 7f1215f1212d9d0fb3631377821722f3 7701 devel optional linux-2.6_2.6.13+2.6.14-rc4-0experimental

Archive (was: Re: Building local kernels from Debian sources)

2005-10-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 04:11:41PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > or more probably in our own kernel.debian.net autobuilt archive, > which will hold also stable-security and stable backport kernels. This is incorrect and needs to be solved. There are two archives. - One, which runs som

Re: Archive (was: Re: Building local kernels from Debian sources)

2005-10-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:54:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, sure, but if you are saying that the stuff dannf setup should run daks, > i guess you are welcome to setup daks on it. We can't run that on alioth. But we may use a partition on the OpenPower machines and mirror the stuff on alio

Re: 2.6.14 has been released, please all checks build and configs, we upload today :)

2005-10-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:02:39AM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: > or the > remove-references-to-removed-drivers.patch should be fixed to remove > this (in the debian kernel useless) Kconfig option. It is referenced in linux-nonfree-2.6. Bastian -- No more blah, bl

Bug#333776: linux-2.6: vfat driver in 2.6.12 is not properly case-insensitive

2005-10-28 Thread Bastian Blank
tags 333776 upstream thanks On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 05:35:49PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Ok, I can confirm that this is not reproducible using your above test case. > The missing variable appears to be that I am mounting my partition using > -oiocharset=utf8. If I use -oisocharset=iso8859-1

Re: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-11-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 06:44:29PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > - Allow us to fix detection problems without to need a kernel upload; As the modules checks against it own table, this is a noop. > - Allow by arch specific modules; The modules may specify that also. > - Allow by kernel vers

Re: x86 kernel flavours was: 2.6.14-1 in incoming, status and future

2005-11-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:25:37AM +0900, Horms wrote: > However, as its a performance issue, what is needed is numbers. > I heard that Ubuntu were looking into it, but haven't heard > anything of late. I only heard something about a weird patch which noops the locks on runtime. Bastian -- Is t

Re: Bug#336452: realtime-lsm-source does not build against the linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7

2005-11-01 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:33:15AM +0900, Horms wrote: > It seems that we are stuck with having SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y. > And as we know, that completely breaks modular LSM. No, it does not. It can be completely disabled on boottime. Bastian -- I have never understood the female capacity to a

Bug#337509: marked as done (linux-headers-2.6.14: flavours file missing)

2005-11-04 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 10:58:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Bastian, please give a bit more info about this, and why should we not keep > the flavours file, it was there for a reason, and it is much more user > friendly to have it in a file, instead of having to do some strange search for > conf

Bug#337599: linux-image-2.6.13-1-k7: Please make SECURITY_CAPABILITIES as module

2005-11-05 Thread Bastian Blank
reassign 337599 realtime-lsm thanks On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 02:13:04PM +0200, Mario Izquierdo (mariodebian) wrote: > I want to compile realtime-lsm module in 2.6.13-1-k7 but > module-asisstant don't work: This was already decided to be a realtime-lsm bug. Bastian -- It is undignified for a wom

Bug#337614: CONFIG_MODVERSIONS should not be used in distro kernels

2005-11-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 11:33:53AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > please consider not using CONFIG_MODVERSIONS in future. Reason: it makes > installation of alternative modules with the same names hard till > unpossible. Current example: ipw2200, which is contained in 2.6.14 in a > very old version.

Bug#337614: CONFIG_MODVERSIONS should not be used in distro kernels

2005-11-05 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:32:02PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > How should I know? I have even removed all the kernel equivalents and > kept only custom versions of ieee8* and ipw22* modules, did rmmod and > "depmod -a", and still got: Okay, so you build ipw2200 against the symbol versions of the

Re: Bug#337479: yaird: should use /usr/bin/perl, not /usr/local/bin/perl

2005-11-05 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 337479 serious thanks On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:31:02PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote: > I'd say this is a problem in the submitter's build host. I's like > configuring a package with silly ./configure options and pretending it > works everywhere. :) No it is not, it is perfectly valid to

Re: [kernel] r4732 - in dists: sid trunk

2005-11-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 03:46:19PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > Please stop with these unannounced (and seemingly arbitrary) moves. > They add unnecessary confusion and I (and likely others) find it > frustrating. Hu? It disappeared without notice. Bastian -- But Captain -- the engines can't

Re: [kernel] r4732 - in dists: sid trunk

2005-11-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 05:45:16PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > Hu? It disappeared without notice. > If I'd been working on the tree at the time, I probably would've whined > then too. The development version disappeared. > A little more ranting... I don't like that we're using a temporal layou

Re: [kernel] r4732 - in dists: sid trunk

2005-11-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:02:35AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I have another proposal, and it involves symlinks. Simon has shown that using > symlinks inside svn is fully supported by svn, so let's try that. This is incorrect. Symlinks are dumb pointers. > The plan goes as follows : > /dists

Re: [kernel] r4732 - in dists: sid trunk

2005-11-06 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:20:24AM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > It was announced in #debian-kernel. So? This is without notice. Bastian -- Those who hate and fight must stop themselves -- otherwise it is not stopped. -- Spock, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

Re: [kernel] r4732 - in dists: sid trunk

2005-11-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 08:56:39AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Indeed. The idea was to move 2.6.14 to sid, and make the out-of-git tree the > main development tree, which was exactly what *YOU* where advocating post > 2.6.12, so i don't understand what you are complaining about. I advocated using

Re: kernel-package and the build symlink ... I don't think we can continue to use k-p under current conditions.

2005-11-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:44:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > These two show perfectly the real problem here, and there has been not a > single technical argument in favour of his solution, and he just throwed away > our own arguments. Can you please call CTTE? > I think it is a shame, but well,

2.6.14.1

2005-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks 2.6.14.1 is released. It changes the ABI of procfs. Bastian -- ... The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get to know each other. -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius", stardate 4372.5 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ABI changes on specific architectures only

2005-11-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 02:28:23PM +0100, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > I switched the alpha build from gcc-3.3 to gcc-4.0 in the not yet > uploaded 2.6.14-3, and Jurij said he'll also switch sparc from gcc-3.3 > to gcc-4.0. 2.6.14.1 seems to need an ABI bump anyway, so go ahead. > How to handle th

Re: [D-I] Supporting 2.6.14 kernels in base-installer

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:16:02PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: > klibc-utils could be replaced by the busybox utils. waldi proposed that. > that would reduce the porter work for klibc which is not yet ready for > any arch. We can even produce a extra busybox for that if it is worth of size. >

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 12:58:10PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Well, not wanting to relaunch the discussion at this, but i think Python rates > really high on the most-uncomprehensible langugage contest, This is incorrect. python rates lower than much other languages. >

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:50:09PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I mean we need to find a way to override the k-p's default for ramdisk on a > per arch/subarch/flavour basis, and a ramdisk= line in the defines seems to be > most obvious place for this. I currently try to implement such. My plan is s

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:29:22PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Why not : > ramdisk: initramfs-tools (>= foo) yaird > but more importantly, why the two levels ? Have you planed something else > where this is important ? Your version needs a dependency parser to drop the (>= foo) in the generated

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 06:18:36PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Ah, i was going to not parse anything and just copy it as is into INITRD_CMD. > Mmm, wait, i forgot something, this is not the usecase i want, what i want is > : > ramdisk: mkinitrd.yaird mkinitramfs > the list of actual binaries being

Re: language of choice for k-p packaging ...

2005-11-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:29:22PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > I mean, the ramdisk: is shorter and thus nicer than image-ramdisk-generators, It specifies generators for ramdisks, not the ramdisks themself. Bastian -- If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend t

Re: x86 openvz feature add

2008-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:34:10PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > as you ack it and ia64 openvz support seems quite stable The ia64 linux-2.6 maintainer have to ack it also. Bastian -- Every living thing wants to survive. -- Spock, "The Ultimate Computer", stardate 4731.3 -

Re: x86 openvz feature add

2008-06-25 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 02:40:53PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 01:34:10PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > > as you ack it and ia64 openvz support seems quite stable > > i could add it there too? > Yes, please do - then I can even use it on my computer at work :) mckinley

Re: [kernel] r11712 - in dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian: . patches/bugfix patches/series

2008-06-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:17:18PM +, Maximilian Attems wrote: > Log: > add inconsistent kallsyms data patch by waldi No. Bastian -- There are some things worth dying for. -- Kirk, "Errand of Mercy", stardate 3201.7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: 2.6.25-6 urgent release

2008-06-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:19:33AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > latest stable release is long awaited for testing, > thus upload with high urgency this night. Nack. Bastian -- Even historians fail to learn from history -- they repeat the same mistakes. -- John Gill, "Patter

Re: 2.6.25-6 urgent release

2008-06-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:19:33AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > latest stable release is long awaited for testing, > thus upload with high urgency this night. I don't see a security problem which forces immediate action, which may also varant the priority setting. Also common sense is to warn

Re: Bug#488343: linux-headers-2.6.24-1-686: useless dependency on gcc-4.1

2008-06-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 08:49:46AM +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Because you have to use the same compiler version that was used to > compile the kernel in order to compile modules. This is only true on ia64 currently. The other arches stopped embedding the compiler version in the module ABI.

Bug#489223: kernel: niced processes get half of the CPU (problem with group fair scheduling)

2008-07-05 Thread Bastian Blank
reassign 489223 linux-2.6 2.6.24-1 thansk On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 09:10:41AM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > Traditional and expected Unix behavior is to give dnetc a small share of > the CPU and burnP6 should have a large share of the CPU. However here > is the CPU distribution according to "top

Bug#489684: firmware-iwlwifi: new firmware iwl4965 (228.57.1.21) available

2008-07-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:07:10AM +0200, Joerg Friedrich wrote: > Bumping to important because I have reports from different people about > better stability when switching ssids and improved data rates (from 50 > kbit/s to 2mbyte/s!) The firmware changes the ABI and is not yet referenced in Linus

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny

2008-07-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:15:58AM +0300, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Luk Claes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-07-07 23:31]: > > > No objection in allowing 2.6.25 to go to testing but please hold on > > > about uploading 2.6.26 until RM team acks on it. > > hint added. > Do you know why it hasn't moved

Bug#490694: linux-image-2.6.25-2-powerpc: OOPS on startup after upgrade 2.6.25-2-powerpc

2008-07-13 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 490694 important thanks On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 01:56:34PM -0400, Jeff Green wrote: > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable You forgot the magic words "for everyone". As this is unlikely, this severity is overstated. > NIP: c013abac LR: c013af18 CTR: c0

Re: linux 2.6.26 upload

2008-07-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 01:25:02AM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > i'd announce 2.6.26 upload for wednesday, alternatively > thursday too unstable for getting good coverage. Nack. This have wait for vorlon. Bastian -- We have phasers, I vote we blast 'em! -- Bailey, "The Corbo

Re: Applying Xen updates patch to main i386 trees

2008-07-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:50:54AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I've just committed a change to enable a patch (previously added by > maks) which adds suspend/resume and ballooning to the -xen flavour of > the i386 kernel. The patch breaks non-x86 arches. Bastian -- The sooner our happiness tog

Re: Applying Xen updates patch to main i386 trees

2008-07-16 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:07:17PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > I've committed this patch since it's pretty trivial. I can easily switch > to the no-generic-changes version if requested though. Seems to work now. Bastian -- Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Y

Userland compatibility fixes for 2.6.26

2008-07-18 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks Following the discussion some weeks ago I have a patch to fix most of the problematic userspace header changes in 2.6.26. However I decided to ignore the following changes: - sparc: Removed a.out definitions, SunOS/Solaris emulation only - sparc: Removed SunOS/Solaris interface definitio

Bug#491309: linux-2.6: Kernel supports "only" 32 cpu's

2008-07-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:17:49PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: > The current Debian kernel supports 32 cpu's according to the > /boot/config file. The > RHEL/CentOS 5 kernel has CONFIG_NR_CPUS set to 255. Any chance the > Debian kernel > parameter can be adjusted to be a bit higher? I assume multi

Re: Userland compatibility fixes for 2.6.26

2008-07-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:20:12PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Following the discussion some weeks ago I have a patch to fix most of > the problematic userspace header changes in 2.6.26. I withdraw the patch. The release team knows why. Bastian -- Each kiss is as the

Bug#491309: linux-2.6: Kernel supports "only" 32 cpu's

2008-07-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 07:30:03AM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: > I would think that for most of the x86_64 machines, a 2MB increase in > memory usage is acceptable? Most of them are probably equiped with at > least 1Gb. | # free -m | total used free sharedbuffers

Re: longclass broken?

2008-07-26 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:55:01PM -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > Is longclass broken? It was. Bastian -- Beam me up, Scotty! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#492703: linux-2.6 [powerpc64] - Fails to find hypervisor console on a Power5 machine

2008-07-28 Thread Bastian Blank
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.26-1~experimental.1 Severity: grave The 2.6.26 powerpc6 image fails to enable the hypervisor console. The end of the log reads: | [1.301182] ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx | [1.320754] mice: PS/2 mouse device co

Bug#492703: linux-2.6 [powerpc64] - Fails to find hypervisor console on a Power5 machine

2008-07-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:37:44PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > The 2.6.26 powerpc6 image fails to enable the hypervisor console. Cause is a config change. 2.6.25 fails with the same symptoms if I build it with the config from 2.6.26. Bastian -- Worlds are conquered, galaxies destroyed --

Bug#492703: linux-2.6 [powerpc64] - Fails to find hypervisor console on a Power5 machine

2008-07-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:37:44PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > The 2.6.26 powerpc6 image fails to enable the hypervisor console. > Cause is a config change. 2.6.25 fails with the same symptoms if I build > it with

Re: Userland compatibility fixes for 2.6.26

2008-07-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:09:44AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:20:12PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > Following the discussion some weeks ago I have a patch to fix most of > > the problematic userspace header changes in 2.6.26. > I believe t

Re: imminent 2.6.26 sid upload

2008-07-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:53:22PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > i'll announce upload of 2.6.26-1 for tomorrow, will hit NEW. Nack. Bastian -- You're dead, Jim. -- McCoy, "The Tholian Web", stardate unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Bug#491309: NR_CPUS in debian linux-images

2008-07-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:48:11AM -0700, Mike Travis wrote: > You could look at the 2.6.27 version of include/asm-x86/irq_vectors.h to see > how NR_IRQ's is somewhat lessened (at least from a NR_CPUS=4096 perspective.) May this change be applicable to 2.6.26 or will it break something else? Bast

Bug#491309: NR_CPUS in debian linux-images

2008-07-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:19:22PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:48:11AM -0700, Mike Travis wrote: > > You could look at the 2.6.27 version of include/asm-x86/irq_vectors.h to see > > how NR_IRQ's is somewhat lessened (at least from a NR_CPUS=4

Bug#479709: Still there

2008-07-30 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 479709 important close 479709 2.6.26-1 thanks On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:49:36AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Not sure whether the severity is correct, No. There are many system which don't choke on this. > I doubt it's a good idea to have this kernel in Lenny, especially > with

Bug#479709: Still there

2008-07-30 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 01:49:51PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:49:36AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > And they are all in the > risk of losing data. Please explain. Data not reaching the disk is something which can't b

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
unmerge 476970 fixed 476970 2.6.26-1 tags 476970 pending severity 493567 normal tags 493567 - confirmed thanks On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:26:56PM +0300, Teodor wrote: > notfixed 476970 2.6.26-1 > reopen 476970 > tags 476970 - pending > found 476970 2.6.26-1 > severity 493567 important > merge 4769

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: > When booting the 2.6.26 kernel from unstable on Lenny, hwclock complains > during boot that it can not read the hardware clock using any known > methods. I see it. The oldstyle rtc is disabled if the new infrastructure is enabled. To mak

Bug#493567: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: /dev/rtc* not created with 2.6.26, rtc_cmos module must be manually loaded.

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 02:38:10PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 12:00:10PM +0200, Rik Theys wrote: > > When booting the 2.6.26 kernel from unstable on Lenny, hwclock complains > > during boot that it can not read the hardware clock using any known > >

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: [SOLVED] Problem was HPET

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 11:42:49AM -0400, Dave Witbrodt wrote: > Are there any Debian-specific changes to the HPET source code, or is > the > problem directly from upstream? No, there are no Debian-specific changes. But 2.6.26 uses the new rtc infrastructure, which may change things. You may chec

Bug#493479: linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64: RTC suggestions do not make kernel bootable

2008-08-03 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 06:01:53PM -0700, David Witbrodt wrote: > Do you have any other suggestions? Bisecting. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/11753. Bastian -- Where there's no emotion, there's no motive for violence. -- Spock, "Dagger of the Mind", stardate 2715.1 -- To

Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-2

2008-08-05 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I'd like to schedule the upload of linux-2.6 2.6.26-2 for tomorrow. It includes the following fixes: - Stable update 2.6.26.1. - Make it possible to build powerpc and sparc modules. - Force RTC support builtin and reenable the ability to set the clock on bootup by the kernel. Bastian

Required patches disabled

2008-08-05 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Someone, I expect maks, disabled required patches. Without them, not even the simplest image package can be built. Bastian -- If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes. -- Kirk, "Space Seed", stardate 3141.9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Bug#463653: bug 463653: e1000 support broken in 2.6.18 xen kernel: please reopen !

2008-08-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 01:17:11PM +0200, Peter Van Biesen wrote: > can the problem please be fixed in a 2.6.18 kernel ? I'm sure it is fixed in > 2.6.24 and up, but to run a xen dom0, you need a 2.6.18 kernel. Can you provide a patch? Bastian -- The joys of love made her human and the agoni

Bug#489387: Please do not replace vserver with openvz.

2008-08-08 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 04:42:03PM -0500, William Pitcock wrote: > It appears the plan is to drop vserver in favour of openvz, offering > openvz as an alternative and perhaps default is a good option, but > please do not remove vservers, as there are real people who depend on > this feature. No. O

Bug#494308: patch for e100

2008-08-09 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 01:18:10PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > I'll be working on a patch for this one today. Some advices: - Please make a minimal fix. As the firmwares are fix-only it may just remove them and the code referencing it. Please note that the patch must not include parts of the

Bug#494036: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: hwclock freezes the machine

2008-08-10 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 11:06:21PM +0200, Gonéri Le Bouder wrote: > On my Dell D610 laptop, linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 has a problem with hwclock. Please recheck with version 2.6.26-2, which may be already on the mirrors. > This command is enough to freeze the machine. About 50% of hwclock calls wi

Removing r6040 driver from l-m-e-2.6

2008-08-11 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I intend to remove r6040 from l-m-e-2.6. Reasons: - Provided by the upstream kernel - Differences between the version in the kernel (both 2.6.26 and 2.6.27-rc2, marked as 0.16 and 0.18) and the standalone version (marked as 0.17) are huge. It is not possible to see any code differe

Re: [PATCH] Enable amd64 Xen on trunk

2008-08-12 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 08:40:09AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Since trunk is now at 2.6.27 which supports amd64 Xen guest's I thought > we could enable CONFIG_XEN for that kernel. I also added some options to > the 32 bit config, they are enabled anyway this just makes them that > explicit. > >

Re: how indicate that a kernel module package is obsolete?

2008-08-13 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:39:44PM -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: > I maintain a kernel module package (eeepc-acpi-source) that has been > merged into the mainline Linux kernel as of version 2.6.26, and has > had features added, bugs fixed, etc. > > The standalone module is still useful for the 2.6.25

Re: Patch failure when changing patchlevels

2008-08-15 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:53:05PM +0100, Jurij Smakov wrote: > It appears that the script is trying first to unapply patch series 1 > and then 2 (instead of correct order of 2 and then 1) and some patches > fail because of that. Running '.../apply/debian 1' followed by > '.../apply/debian orig'

Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-3

2008-08-15 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I'd like to schedule the upload of linux-2.6 2.6.26-3 for monday. The following things are still missing: - VServer support for alpha, ia64, s390 and sparc. s390 does not build. Others untested. It should at least include all arches which had them in Etch. - PAE enabled VServer image

Bug#495685: firmware-iwlwifi: microcode error

2008-08-19 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 495685 normal tags 495685 moreinfo thanks On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 07:02:56PM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > it hangs for half a minute, then I get this error: > iwl3945: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection > iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reas

Bug#355883: Same problem here

2008-08-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:50:11PM +0200, Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) wrote: > I can confirm this bug 2.6.26-1-amd64 and a slightly modified rebuild of > the i386 flavour. > My usb stick is unusable. I doubt that you see the same bug. Try #494800. > I noticed severity has been dropped from important to

Bug#495590: linux-2.6: Please package -xen-amd64 linux-images in sid

2008-08-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:23:41PM -0400, Dennis Boone wrote: > Please provide linux-image-*-xen-amd64 packages in sid. It's getting > fairly unreasonable to run multiple guests in so little ram. 64 bit > CPUs are quite common now. Xen support for x86_64 is first shipped in the upcoming 2.6.27 p

Re: [kernel] r12106 - in dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian: . patches/bugfix/all patches/series

2008-08-20 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:01:46AM +, Maximilian Attems wrote: > + * x86: ACPI: Fix thermal shutdowns ACPI is not x86 specific. Bastian -- Too much of anything, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing. -- Kirk, "The Trouble with Tribbles", stardate 4525.6 -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Upstream patch to fix Xen virtual framebuffer

2008-08-21 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:11:31AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > A fix (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121925882522748&w=2) has been > submitted and is currently between akpm and Linus once it is committed I > intend to add it to the Debian kernel. Hopefully it will find it's way > into a subseq

Bug#495919: kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

2008-08-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 01:11:04PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: > linux-image-2.6.26-1-vserver-686-bigmem 2.6.26-3snapshot.12100 appears > to have page allocation failures: I consider this a generic problem for now. Google shows many instances. Bastian -- War is never imperative.

Bug#496120: linux-modules-extra-2.6: build-dependencies not satisfiable an amd64 sid+testing

2008-08-22 Thread Bastian Blank
Version: 2.6.26-2 On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 09:28:52PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote: > The build-dependencies cannot be satisfied on amd64 > even by taking sid and testing binary packages together : Thank you for wasting our time. This is fixed in unstable. Bastian -- You! What PLANET is this!

Re: Plans to upload 2.6.26-4?

2008-08-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:29:58AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > Are there any plans for uploading 2.6.26-4? Reread the mail for 2.6.26-3. Bastian -- If a man had a child who'd gone anti-social, killed perhaps, he'd still tend to protect that child. -- McCoy, "The Ultimate Comput

Re: removal doesnt seem an option atm, or?

2008-08-24 Thread Bastian Blank
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:00:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > linux-2.6 build-depends on kernel-package (>= 10.063). If the code still uses > kernel-package, and I have no reason to not believe the control file, removal > of kernel-package is not really an option at this time. This code is s

Scheduling linux-2.6 2.6.26-4

2008-08-26 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi folks I intend to upload linux-2.6 2.6.26-4 tomorrow after the current ones was (hopefully) synced to Lenny. This upload includes several fixes: - 2.6.26.3 - VServer for some additional arches to catch up to the list of supported arches in Etch. - Some Xen and OpenVZ fixes, including a RC bu

Re: Processed: gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh missing

2008-08-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:24:06AM +, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > found 494435 linux-headers-2.6.25-2-686 This is no valid version. Please fix it. Bastian -- I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. -- Spock, "This Side

Bug#496410: The possibility of attack with the help of symlinks in some Debian packages

2008-08-27 Thread Bastian Blank
severity 496410 important thanks On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:12:29PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > _or_ _causes_ _data_ _loss_ It does not cause data loss, the admin needs to execute it. And now stop bitching around. Bastian -- Superior ability breeds superior ambition. --

Bug#496173: linux-image-2.6.25-2-686: nVidia driver complains that it's a XEN kernel

2008-08-27 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:45:32PM -0500, Steven S. Critchfield wrote: > No this is not a bug in the NVidia installer. If you believe this is a bug in the kernel please provide evidence. The XEN entry in the config is no valid indicator. Bastian -- Military secrets are the most fleeting of all

Re: Fixes to Etch kernel for use in a Xen domain 0

2008-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 05:20:53PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > I'm not aware of any well-formed consensus yet - though there are > several ideas. I'll caveat this by saying I don't follow Xen > development at all, and didn't participate in the previous thread > about this (very busy at the time),

Re: Fixes to Etch kernel for use in a Xen domain 0

2008-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:22:19AM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 09:36:53AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 05:20:53PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any well-formed consensus yet - though there are > >

Re: Fixes to Etch kernel for use in a Xen domain 0

2008-08-28 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:49:11PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On 2008-08-28, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know its not really pretty, but for now its the best we can get IMHO. > What about the Novell 2.6.26 forward-port? Novell did a .25 forward-port.

Re: Fixes to Etch kernel for use in a Xen domain 0

2008-08-29 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:25:30PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: > > - Full support, which currently noone wants to handle. > One plus for #4 is that it gives us the option of doing #5 later, in > case someone steps forward between now and the end of etch support. Yes. > > I know its not really pret

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