Sync request ACK'd. The current Debian package includes relevant
changes, and significant improvements for Ubuntu, and builds cleanly in
an Ubuntu environment. The new Debian Maintainer is active in Ubuntu,
and closely watching the state of this package in both distributions.
** Changed in: sl-modem (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
** Summary changed:
- Please sync sl-modem 2.9.11~20080817-1 (multiverse) from Debian
unstable (main).
+ Please sync sl-modem 2.9.11~20080817-1 (multiverse) from Debian
unstable (non-free).
** Description changed:
affects ubuntu/sl-modem
status confirmed
importance wishlist
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Please sync sl-modem 2.9.11~20080817-1 (multiverse) from Debian unstable
- (main).
+ (non-free).
Changelog since last sync from Debian 2.9.9d+e-pre2-5:
sl-modem (2.9.11~20080817-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release. (Closes: #354908, #489289, #457637, LP: #144090,
#269855)
* Adopting sl-modem. (Closes: #471888)
* Removed the following patches since they are applied upstream:
+ patch to define URB_ASYNC_UNLINK if not set
+ patch that adds alternative MODULE_PARM function (module_param)
+ patch removing the inclusion of config.h
+ patch making a biarch build with lib32 package versions
+ patches fixing buils with kernel versions 2.6.16, 2.6.18 and 2.6.26
* Remove cmd.patch and pcireg.patch as they are applied upstream.
* Used quilt patch system.
+ Moved slmodem-class-simple-to-class-meins.diff to debian/patches/
+ 01_Makefile.diff: Makefile cleanup to not loose the user-specified
kernel version string.
+ modem_group.diff: set the default device group to "dialout".
+ 02_dial_string_size.diff: enlarge dial string buffer to 128 bytes
+ 03_Makefile_2.6.12.4.diff: workaround in drivers/Makefile for a kernel
2.4 check accidentialy matching 2.6.12.4.
+ 04_sregs_init.diff
+ 05_st7554_license.diff: changed the MODULE_LICENSE string to
"Dual BSD/GPL" since the license is actually a BSD license clone.
+ 06_slmodem-class-simple-to-class-meins.diff: patch for
class/simple_class transition.
+ 08_ungrab_winmodem.diff: helper module to tell the kernel to keep away
from unsupported PCI id numbers.
+ 10_drop_privileges.diff: slmodemd privilege dropping patch.
+ 11_logfile.diff: place debug log in /var/log/slmodem.log.
+ kernel-ver.diff: workaround for pre-2.6.18 kernels.
+ README.diff: Dropped the TROUBLESHOOTING section from README and adapted
the feedback section, mentioned the transfer of the modem business to
Conexant.
+ debug_level.diff: debug log file is not for end users. Users shall use
-l .
* Added fortify_source.diff patch to fix FTBFS with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
compile flag.
* Synch'ed ungrab-winmodem.c from
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ungrab-winmodem-20080126.tar.gz.
* Remove debian/control.backup* as I don't see any use for them.
* Update Standards-Version to 3.8.0.
* Added watch file.
* debian/rules: slusb support ends at 2.6.24, hence add a check for kernel
sublevel, to prevent the attempt to install non-existing slusb.ko. Thanks
to Maurizio Avogadro for the suggestion.
* Translation updates: Swedish, German, Basque, French, Italian, Czech,
Portuguese, Finnish, Japanese and Russian (Closes: #501038, #501043,
#501065, #501102, #501108, #501213, #501225, #501701, #501632, #501593).
* New translation: Arabic (Closes: #501196).
* debian/control: Added Maurizio Avogadro to Uploaders field.
* debian/sl-modem-daemon.init: changes from Ubuntu
+ sl-modem-daemon initscript waits for aplay (from alsa-utils) to report
the card, as it appears in /proc/asound/cards before it is actually
available to slmodemd. This extra check defeats this race.
+ Remove hard and soft ulimits for locked-in-core memory. This daemon
unfortunately needs quite a bit of memory and it needs to be in core
because it's doing the real-time modem DSP. This deals with LP: #144468
and probably other bugs too.
[Maurizio Avogadro]
* debian/rules: removed code to append extra lines to modprobe.d file, since
they are statically appended in debian/sl-modem-daemon.modutils.
* The init script can now modprobe even if the slamr module has been
blacklisted.
* Modified 11_logfile.diff: Fixed the log path as the slmodemd daemon runs
as unprivileged user and didn't have write permissions on /var/log.
* Added class_device.diff patch: since 2.6.25 class_device_add() and
class_device_destroy() has been renamed, modified st7554.c accordingly.
* Removed obsolete /etc/modutils file.
* Small enhancements to the modprobe.d file:
+ verify device permissions on module install
