Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > Jens, will you upload powerpc 2.6.7-3 too ? -2 will not be buildable > because of the asfs patch move i believe ? That's okay, the asfs patch moved in 2.6.7-2 already. > I need to hear some info about possibly creating a new powerpc-small > config for 2.6 oldworld mib

Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:39:40AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > Jens, will you upload powerpc 2.6.7-3 too ? -2 will not be buildable > > because of the asfs patch move i believe ? > > That's okay, the asfs patch moved in 2.6.7-2 already. Ah, ok. > > I need

Bug#257038: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686: Does not mount HFS+ volume

2004-07-07 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:20:12PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:01:24PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 07:07:59AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > Well, hfs and hfs+ are two separate modules, are you sure both of them > > > are c

PReP support for mkvmlinuz & kernel-image 2.6

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
Hello Jens, Find here attached both a new mkvmlinuz and the diff to mkvmlinuz-6 for adding PReP support. This needs some modification of the powerpc kernel package to include the needed file for this, which can be found at revision 811 on the subversion repo. That said, since there is a filena

Re: How long is it acceptable to leave *undistributable* files in the kernel package?

2004-07-07 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-kernel.] On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:00:55AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > > It's a unilateral license. It can't mean anything but what he intends > > it to mean. > > Reference, please? That is Alice in Wonderland logic ("Words mean >

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-07-07 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:44:06AM +0900, Horms wrote: > What needs to be done? Basically, update cvs to the current 2.4 in order to get security fixes from newer mainline 2.4, and send out packages. -- wli

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Kilian Krause
Package: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated Severity: normal The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's pretty hard to evaluate which benefits are already provided by usin

Processed: kernel

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 258043 kernel Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated Warning: Unknown package 'doesn' Warning: Unknown pac

Re: PReP support for mkvmlinuz & kernel-image 2.6

2004-07-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Sven Luther writes: > since there is a filename conflict between the openfirmware and prep > objs files, i moved them both into subdirectories, which means that > the future 2.6.7-3 will conflict with mkvmlinuz <= 6. As far as I can see, the only conflicting file is misc.o. By installing si

Re: patch for mkinitrd to use /proc/self/fd

2004-07-07 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Joshua Kwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-07-06 11:54]: > initrd-tools cries a river when it can just use /proc/self/fd. So which > is broken, makedev or initrd-tools? I asked Herbert Xu to comment on this patch and he said, "MAKEDEV should be fixed instead. Other scripts rely on /dev/fd as well."

Re: PReP support for mkvmlinuz & kernel-image 2.6

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:01:35PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Sven Luther writes: > > > since there is a filename conflict between the openfirmware and prep > > objs files, i moved them both into subdirectories, which means that > > the future 2.6.7-3 will conflict with mkvmlinuz <=

Re: PReP support for mkvmlinuz & kernel-image 2.6

2004-07-07 Thread Joerg Morbitzer
Sven Luther wrote: Hello Jens, Find here attached both a new mkvmlinuz and the diff to mkvmlinuz-6 for adding PReP support. This needs some modification of the powerpc kernel package to include the needed file for this, which can be found at revision 811 on the subversion repo. That said, sinc

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:29:44PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not > list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's > pretty hard to evaluate which benefits are already provided by using the > debian kernel package

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Christoph, Am Mi, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 13:48: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:29:44PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not > > list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's > > pretty hard to

Bug#258061: kernel-source-2.6.7: ACPI initialization hangs on Compaq Presario 2100

2004-07-07 Thread Bruno Diniz de Paula
Package: kernel-source-2.6.7 Version: 2.6.7-2 Severity: important Tags: patch Hi, I've sent a message to debian-kernel with no success, so I'm trying to report a bug about this problem I've faced. In my Compaq Presario 2100, when I boot the system with "acpi=on" as one of my kernel parameters, th

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-07-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:29:48AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:44:06AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > What needs to be done? > > Basically, update cvs to the current 2.4 in order to get security fixes > from newer mainline 2.4, and send out packages. > Just a commen

Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Francesco P. Lovergine
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:33:09PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > I would like to get kernel-source-2.6.7-3 out tomorrow, if possible. > Does anyone have anything pressing that needs to go in before -3 is > released? I've spoken to luther (who wanted me to wait until tomorrow), > hch, and wli; the

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2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > reassign 258061 kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7 Bug#258061: kernel-source-2.6.7: ACPI initialization hangs on Compaq Presario 2100 Bug reassigned from package `kernel-source-2.6.7' to `kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7'. > thanks Stopping processing here. Please

Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:33:09PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > I would like to get kernel-source-2.6.7-3 out tomorrow, if possible. > Does anyone have anything pressing that needs to go in before -3 is > released? I've spoken to luther (who wanted me to wait until tomorrow), > hch, and wli; the

Incomplete upload found in Debian upload queue

2004-07-07 Thread Archive Administrator
Probably you are the uploader of the following file(s) in the Debian upload queue directory: kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3.diff.gz kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3.dsc kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_all.deb This looks like an upload, but a .changes file is missing, so the job cannot be processed. If n

Processing of kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_powerpc.changes

2004-07-07 Thread Archive Administrator
kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_powerpc.changes uploaded successfully to localhost along with the files: kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3.dsc kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3.diff.gz kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_all.deb kernel-tree-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_all.deb kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_all.deb kernel

Re: kernel-patch-amd64

2004-07-07 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:40:49PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:32:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > Its also quite off the mark for amd64. The last kerel version had a 0 Byte > > > patch fo

Re: kernel-patch-amd64

2004-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:05:37PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > If we are going to talk about broken bad user experiences we should talk > about why the keyspan drivers are built as modules but don't seem to > have firmware loader support. Greg has rejected patches to use userspace firmware-lo

kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3_powerpc.changes REJECTED

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Installer
Rejected: md5sum for /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.7/kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7.orig.tar.gz doesn't match kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7-3.dsc. Rejected: size for /org/ftp.debian.org/ftp/pool/main/k/kernel-source-2.6.7/kernel-source-2.6.7_2.6.7.orig.tar.gz doesn't match kerne

Re: kernel-patch-amd64

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:05:37PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:48:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:40:49PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:32:55PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > > > > Its also quite

Re: preparations for 2.6.7-3

2004-07-07 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 12:24, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:33:09PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > I would like to get kernel-source-2.6.7-3 out tomorrow, if possible. > > Does anyone have anything pressing that needs to go in before -3 is > > released? I've spoken to luther (wh

Re: kernel-patch-amd64

2004-07-07 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
> Who took that decision ? And even then, how would it be all that > different from the many alternative trees out there, like the -mm one > Christoph refered to me recently. > > Nothing is stoping us from presenting usefull stuff to our unstable > users while we are still working on it, is this n

Re: kernel-patch-amd64

2004-07-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
[Cc trimmed, Reply-To trimmed further] Hi, Troy Benjegerdes writes: > Do we have a mechanism for dropping patches as we move from > unstable->testing->stable ? Not really. When a certain revision of a package is uploaded into unstable, it leaves the maintainer's hands. The passage from unstab

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:22:38PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > well, installing a kernel first to see if i like its patches is not very > compfortable. So i was actually referring to the description of > "apt-cache show kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7 kernel-image-2.6.7-1-k7" which > does not list anyt

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:48:43PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:29:44PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > The description from kernel-patch-debian and kernel-image does not > > list which patches are contained in the Debian diff. That way it's > > pretty hard to evalua

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:01:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Maybe we should simply copy over the 00list-* somewhere in the package > documentation ? > > Adding it to the description seems overkill to me though. The patch names alone don't say a lot. Maybe we could generate a PATCHES files fro

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Jens Schmalzing
Hi, Kilian Krause writes: > Just some place i can check the list *BEFORE* downloading some 30MB > off the net The .diff.gz, containing all the patches complete with accurate descriptions, is less than 500kB. Regards, Jens. -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je p

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Jens, > > Just some place i can check the list *BEFORE* downloading some 30MB > > off the net > > The .diff.gz, containing all the patches complete with accurate > descriptions, is less than 500kB. it may be small for 2.6.7, but it was a general remark. Like the 2.4 kernels may be containing

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:58:44PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:01:07PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Maybe we should simply copy over the 00list-* somewhere in the package > > documentation ? > > > > Adding it to the description seems overkill to me though. > > Th

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Christoph, Am Mi, den 07.07.2004 schrieb Christoph Hellwig um 14:58: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:22:38PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > well, installing a kernel first to see if i like its patches is not very > > compfortable. So i was actually referring to the description of > > "apt-cache s

Processed: reassign 254264 to kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686

2004-07-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.7.95.1 > reassign 254264 kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 Bug#254264: Inserting CF card causes udev/hotplug to create/remove device repeatedly Bug reassigned from package `udev' to `kernel-image-2.

Bug#245668: kernel-source-2.6.5: intel8x0: IEC958 output not working anymore

2004-07-07 Thread Roland Stigge
Hi, sorry for the delay. On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:42, Herbert Xu wrote: > Please show me the contents of /proc/asound. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /proc/asound/* -r--r--r--1 root root0 2004-07-07 22:59 /p

Bug#258043: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.7, kernel-image-2.6.7: doesn't list which patches are incorporated

2004-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:00:11PM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote: > > You mean any of these two? > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-1.bz2 > /usr/src/kernel-patches/all/2.6.7/debian/patch-2.6.7-2.bz2 No, these are patches to generate the illusion that kernel-patch-debian still wor

Bug#258082: kernel: Failure to read partition table with advansys scsi

2004-07-07 Thread David Golden
Package: kernel Severity: normal Stock debian kernel images 2.4.26 and 2.6 up to and including 2.6.5 work fine, happily read partition table containing root fs on SCSI disk. Kernel images 2.6.6-1-k7 and 2.6.7-1-k7 fail to read partition table from disk, though do seem to detect controller and d

Bug#258088: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686: cpio error occurs during the install of this package

2004-07-07 Thread Walter Tautz
Package: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 Version: 2.6.6-1 Severity: important # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.6-1-686 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: lilo kernel-doc-2.6.6 kernel-source-2.6.6 The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-07-07 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:29:48AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Basically, update cvs to the current 2.4 in order to get security fixes >> from newer mainline 2.4, and send out packages. On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 10:22:54AM +0900, Horms wrote: > I am more than happy to help with this. > By

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-07-07 Thread Horms
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:29:48AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:44:06AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > What needs to be done? > > Basically, update cvs to the current 2.4 in order to get security fixes > from newer mainline 2.4, and send out packages. I am more than h

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-07-07 Thread Horms
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:17:37PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:29:48AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:44:06AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > > What needs to be done? > > > > Basically, update cvs to the current 2.4 in order to get

Re: 2.4 kernels

2004-07-07 Thread Horms
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:29:41PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 03:29:48AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> Basically, update cvs to the current 2.4 in order to get security fixes > >> from newer mainline 2.4, and send out packages. > > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004

Bug#249205: [getty-info@mail.nwmagic.net: Re: [syntaxis@gmx.co.uk: Bug#249205: gettyps: no right to modify]]

2004-07-07 Thread Colin Watson
tags 249205 stable thanks On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:55:00PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 08:08:48 -0700 > From: Christine Jamison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: SPECTRA Software, Inc. > To: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bug#249205: gett