Bug#377853: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled = linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 is unusable

2006-07-13 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 13 July 2006 00:34, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
 Yeah, I just noticed that myself. :/  It does suck but I'm not sure
 this is a RC bug.  The kernel does work, sort of, after all... we're
 trying to get beta3 out and I think the -boot team will kill me if
 there has to be another kernel rebuild so I suggest we leave it as it
 is for now (I've disabled it in SVN already for future releases).

Also, nslu2 is not really a mainstream arch that justifies delaying 
everything. This seems like a too small issue to have to rebuild for all 
arches to me.

 Ccing -boot to get comments.  Would there be time for another kernel
 upload?  If not, I'll downgrade this bug.

An upload would just be possible, especially if it includes no other 
changes affecting other arches (so we can skip rebuilding the udebs).
The main delay would be the build for arm which takes over a day...
I'll leave the final decision to the kernel team, but if you upload please 
do so ASAP.

Isn't there a way to work around this at run time (i.e. setting a value to 
0 in /proc somewhere that disables the debugging)?

Cheers,
FJP


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Bug#377853: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled = linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 is unusable

2006-07-13 Thread Aurelien Jarno

Frans Pop a écrit :

On Thursday 13 July 2006 00:34, Martin Michlmayr wrote:

Yeah, I just noticed that myself. :/  It does suck but I'm not sure
this is a RC bug.  The kernel does work, sort of, after all... we're
trying to get beta3 out and I think the -boot team will kill me if
there has to be another kernel rebuild so I suggest we leave it as it
is for now (I've disabled it in SVN already for future releases).


Also, nslu2 is not really a mainstream arch that justifies delaying 
everything. This seems like a too small issue to have to rebuild for all 
arches to me.


I fully understand your point of view, and I have written in my original 
bug report that nslu2 is maybe not a subarchitecture release, so the bug 
is maybe not so critical.


However, I also maintain that this kernel is not usable. Your disk is 
filled in one or two hours, and the load of the machine is between 1.5 
and 2.0.



Ccing -boot to get comments.  Would there be time for another kernel
upload?  If not, I'll downgrade this bug.


An upload would just be possible, especially if it includes no other 
changes affecting other arches (so we can skip rebuilding the udebs).

The main delay would be the build for arm which takes over a day...
I'll leave the final decision to the kernel team, but if you upload please 
do so ASAP.


I have reported the bug against the 2.6.16 version as I think it is 
important for the release. However if you plan to fix the bug later, 
fixing it in 2.6.17 is also ok for me. I am not sure my machine is fast 
enough to rebuilt the kernel myself (also given the current load I get 
doing nothing except filling /var/log/syslog), and I am using this 
machine to make test builds of the glibc.


Isn't there a way to work around this at run time (i.e. setting a value to 
0 in /proc somewhere that disables the debugging)?


Well I have looked at the code, the debugging messages are printed using 
printk(), and their inclusion or not in the final code is done by 
preprocessor options (#ifdef #endif).


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Bug#377853: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled = linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 is unusable

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-13 15:55]:
 I have reported the bug against the 2.6.16 version as I think it is 
 important for the release. However if you plan to fix the bug later, 
 fixing it in 2.6.17 is also ok for me. I am not sure my machine is fast 

It's fixed in 2.6.17-3, uploaded today (ARM build coming in a day or two).
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Bug#377853: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled = linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 is unusable

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-13 15:20]:
 Also, nslu2 is not really a mainstream arch that justifies delaying
 everything. This seems like a too small issue to have to rebuild for
 all arches to me.

Yeah, I agree.  Furthermore, the nslu2 requires a non-free ethernet
driver so I have to provide unofficial images anyway - I can simply
include another kernel in there.

 I'll leave the final decision to the kernel team, but if you upload
 please do so ASAP.

Don't worry.  However, there's this new security bug, but it seems
waldi isn't interested in doing another 2.6.16 upload.
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Bug#377853: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled = linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 is unusable

2006-07-12 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-07-11 18:50]:
 CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG is now enabled on nslu2 kernels. As this
 kernels only run on machines which only supports USB disks, this render
 the machine unusable: every traffic on the disk is logged to
 /var/log/syslog, which generates traffic on the disk, etc.

Yeah, I just noticed that myself. :/  It does suck but I'm not sure
this is a RC bug.  The kernel does work, sort of, after all... we're
trying to get beta3 out and I think the -boot team will kill me if
there has to be another kernel rebuild so I suggest we leave it as it
is for now (I've disabled it in SVN already for future releases).

Ccing -boot to get comments.  Would there be time for another kernel
upload?  If not, I'll downgrade this bug.
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Bug#377853: CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG enabled = linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2 is unusable

2006-07-11 Thread Aurelien Jarno
Package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-nslu2
Version: 2.6.16-16
Severity: serious

CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG is now enabled on nslu2 kernels. As this
kernels only run on machines which only supports USB disks, this render
the machine unusable: every traffic on the disk is logged to
/var/log/syslog, which generates traffic on the disk, etc.

This option should be disabled, as on previous kernels.


Note: arm is a release architecture, but I am not sure if the nslu2 
  subarchitecture is a release one. In the contrary, this bug could
  be downgraded to important.

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