Bug#1024149: linux-image-amd64: 32-bit mmap() puts large files at non-random address

2024-01-12 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 16:12:47 +0100 Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi Jakub, > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 01:24:16PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > > * Salvatore Bonaccorso , 2022-11-19 11:11: > > > Given you were able to tackle the issue further, can you report the > > > issue to upstream > > > >

Bug#996713: firmware-brcm80211: firmware becomes non-responsive while running as an access point on RPI4

2022-01-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:00:16 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: > > > Now I'll try a 5.14 kernel backport (with the firmware from bullseye). > If it STILL happens, then I'll try and get a patch upstream to detect > this issue and reinit the hardware. > > Just an update - shortly

Bug#996713: firmware-brcm80211: firmware becomes non-responsive while running as an access point on RPI4

2021-11-15 Thread Andres Salomon
On 11/15/21 3:22 AM, Diederik de Haas wrote: Andres: You mentioned bullseye in your initial report, but it didn't have the usual footer mentioning various program versions and I'm especially interested in the kernel version. Could you mention that in subsequent reports (if any)? The user in

Bug#996713: firmware-brcm80211: firmware becomes non-responsive while running as an access point on RPI4

2021-10-25 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 13:10:19 -0400 Andres Salomon wrote: [...] > > I'm currently trying a newer Cypress firmware (from unstable), so > we'll see if it also has the same crash. > Same thing with the firmware-brcm80211 20210818-1 in unstable. Oct 17 12:49:58 wifi1 kernel: [   14.0577

Bug#996713: firmware-brcm80211: firmware becomes non-responsive while running as an access point on RPI4

2021-10-17 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: firmware-brcm80211 Version: 20210315-3 Severity: normal This bug is mostly for documentation purposes. When running a raspberry pi 4b as an access point, after a random period of time the on-chip firmware will crash and leave the wireless driver (brcmfmac) unusable until the chip is

Bug#991968: firmware-brcm80211: security updates for wifi FragAttacks

2021-08-06 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: firmware-brcm80211 Version: 20210315-3 Severity: important Tags: security X-Debbugs-Cc: Debian Security Team A whole bunch of wifi (protocol-level) security flaws were published here: https://www.fragattacks.com/ Cypress (AKA Infineon), who maintains some of the broadcom firmware

Bug#984489: firmware-brcm80211: newer versions fail to load on raspberry pi 4b with "brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout"

2021-03-03 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: firmware-brcm80211 Version: 20210208-3 Severity: important The version of firmware-brcm80211 in bullseye (specifically 20201218-3) works fine on my Rasperry Pi 4 board. However, the version in sid does not. Specifically, the brcmfmac kernel driver fails to load with some clock errors.

Bug#733088: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: tpm_tis module breaks suspend on x200s

2013-12-25 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae Version: 3.2.51-1 Severity: normal With the standard wheezy kernel, suspend fails: [ 31.357482] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done. [ 31.357913] PM: Preparing system for mem sleep [ 31.424249] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.

Bug#729542: firmware-ipw2200: instability with firmware 3.1

2013-11-16 Thread Andres Salomon
BTW, the original download site for the firmware gives me a 404. I snagged the 3.0 version from fedora: http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/ipw2200-firmware/ipw2200-fw-3.0.tgz/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#729542: firmware-ipw2200: instability with firmware 3.1

2013-11-16 Thread Andres Salomon
I've been actively using the machine for 48 hrs now, with no network problems. I think it's safe to say that the 3.0 works well with ipw2200s, while 3.1 is buggy. Please consider downgrading the firmware. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Bug#715370: Acknowledgement (linux-image-3.9-1-486: CONFIG_GPIO_CS5535 has been set to 'y' when it should be 'M')

2013-07-08 Thread Andres Salomon
Yes, CONFIG_GPIO_CS5535 is forced to 'Y' because the OLPC XO-1 power management settings (CONFIG_OLPC_XO1_PM, CONFIG_OLPC_XO1_SCI, and a few other related options) are boolean. Making the PM code modular is the only way to fix this, but doing so would be racy due to the various hooks that are

Bug#705788: fb-modules-3.2.0-4-486-di: please include viafb module for OLPC XO-1.5 support in d-i

2013-04-20 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:07:47 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: Control: tag -1 patch On Fri, 2013-04-19 at 22:07 -0700, Andres Salomon wrote: Package: fb-modules-3.2.0-4-486-di Version: 3.2.41-2 The OLPC XO-1.5 doesn't support VESA. It needs the viafb driver in order

Bug#705780: fb-modules-3.2.0-4-486-di: please include lxfb module for OLPC XO-1 support in d-i

2013-04-19 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: fb-modules-3.2.0-4-486-di Version: 3.2.41-2 The Geode LXFB driver used to be built into the Debian kernel. With bug #686528, it was made modular, which makes things more difficult for the XO-1 platform. OLPC XO-1 doesn't support VESA, which means the lxfb driver is required in order to

Bug#705788: fb-modules-3.2.0-4-486-di: please include viafb module for OLPC XO-1.5 support in d-i

2013-04-19 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: fb-modules-3.2.0-4-486-di Version: 3.2.41-2 The OLPC XO-1.5 doesn't support VESA. It needs the viafb driver in order to get display output. Similar to #705780, please consider including viafb.ko in the fb-modules udeb. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#686528: linux-image-3.2.0-3-486: [lxfb] doesn't understand modes passed via GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX in /etc/default/grub

2012-09-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 21:26:21 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I'm cc'ing Andres because he's previously requested various Geode config changes to support OLPC. Thanks! On Sun, 2012-09-02 at 22:38 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.23-1

Bug#569494: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686: pcspkr sometimes breaks audio

2011-09-13 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 09:14:39 -0500 Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andres, [...] Ways forward: - libasound2 could use Suggests: alsa-base. (Recommends would be too strong because alsa-base has nontrivial dependencies itself and it is not too unusual to use binaries

Bug#640964: linux-image-3.1.0-rc4-486: BUG() triggered on XO-1 hardware

2011-09-08 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: linux-image-3.1.0-rc4-486 Version: 3.1.0~rc4-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal During boot on an OLPC XO-1, I encounter the following problem. I believe it's the statement BUG_ON(a-cpuid = NCAPINTS*32), though I'm not staring at an exact copy of linux-2.6 source. Boot device:

Bug#639113: linux-image-3.0.0-1-486: please enable various OLPC drivers

2011-08-24 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: linux-image-3.0.0-1-486 Version: 3.0.0-2 Severity: wishlist OLPC support is partially enabled in this kernel, but a few drivers that have gone upstream (or been reworked) are missing from the config. Please consider enabling the following config options: CONFIG_MFD_CS5535=m (used by

Bug#639113: linux-image-3.0.0-1-486: please enable various OLPC drivers

2011-08-24 Thread Andres Salomon
Oh, and the 3.1 kernel will be including the following new symbols as well: CONFIG_OLPC_XO1_PM=y CONFIG_OLPC_XO1_RTC=y CONFIG_OLPC_XO1_SCI=y CONFIG_OLPC_XO15_SCI=y It would be nice to have those in -486 as well. The -686-pae kernel won't be used for OLPC, because PAE conflicts with it. So,

Bug#569494: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686: pcspkr sometimes breaks audio

2010-02-11 Thread Andres Salomon
In theory, this should never happen; snd_card_create() takes an idx that sets the order of cards, /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf blacklists snd-pcsp (so it should never be loaded!), and /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf sets idx=-2 for snd_pcsp so that it's not loaded as the first

Re: RFC: Bug handling policy

2009-10-28 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi Ben, Ack on everything below. Some comments are below. On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:14:54 +0100 Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I've drafted a policy based on what I believe to be best practice. Please comment - is anything wrong, or anything missing? I also left some questions in

Re: RFC: Bug handling policy

2009-10-28 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:49 + Berni Elbourn be...@elbournb.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Andres Salomon wrote: 2. Severities Many submitters believe that their bug meets one of the following criteria for high severity. We interpret them as follows and will downgrade as appropriate

Bug#551542: fscache: null pointer dereference in fscache_object_slow_work_execute

2009-10-18 Thread Andres Salomon
Oh and just to let you know, it does say you guys are the maintainers. :) Let me know if you need anything else. ~Matt I'd be interested to know if this still occurs on 2.6.31. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#551393: drmRadeonCmdBuffer: -12. Kernel failed to parse or rejected command stream

2009-10-17 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:20:28 +1030 Arthur Marsh arthur.ma...@internode.on.net wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-1~experimental.2 Severity: normal I attempted to run extremetuxracer on this machine with radeon9200se and radeon driver and received the following output: How

Bug#550190: linux-image-2.6.31-trunk-amd64: SCSI warnings/errors with LSI SAS1064E controller

2009-10-08 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:54:49 -0600 dann frazier da...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 08:17:30PM +1100, Jason White wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.31-1~experimental.1 Severity: normal After upgrading to 2.6.31 from 2.6.30, I get the following, quite frequently,

Bug#548397: linux-image-2.6.30-2-686-bigmem: Random Lockup with automount, mysqld, and kswapd0 error messages.

2009-09-26 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:33:45 -0500 Paul Logasa Bogen II p...@tamu.edu wrote: After a semi-random period of normal operation (anywhere from a few hours to a week) the machine will suddenly get a series of page allocation errors followed by a series of soft lockup - CPU#[X] stuck messages

Bug#546213: severity of 546213 is normal

2009-09-25 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:12:06 +0200 Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:01:45PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: This sounds an awful lot like a firmware bug, as well (for which we don't have the source code for). Perhaps you could try downgrading

Bug#546213: severity of 546213 is normal

2009-09-24 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:33:21 +0200 Patrick Schoenfeld schoenf...@debian.org wrote: Hi, On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 04:31:17AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 22:21 +0200, Patrick Schoenfeld wrote: Hi, Bastian, would you mind *explaining* why you think its justified

Bug#525351: linux-image-2.6.29-1-686: audio broken on x40

2009-08-31 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:44:00 +0200 Moritz Muehlenhoff j...@inutil.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 05:53:24PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-686 Version: 2.6.29-3 Hi, On my x40, audio is now broken with 2.6.29-1-686. I believe that this is a Debian

Bug#539026: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686: agpgart module fails to initialize

2009-07-28 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 Version: 2.6.30-3 During boot, I see: [1.347047] Linux agpgart interface v0.103 [1.366133] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [1.378704] i915 :00:02.0: power state changed by ACPI to D0 [1.378719] i915 :00:02.0: PCI INT A - GSI 16

Bug#525351: linux-image-2.6.29-1-686: audio broken on x40

2009-04-23 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: linux-image-2.6.29-1-686 Version: 2.6.29-3 Hi, On my x40, audio is now broken with 2.6.29-1-686. I believe that this is a Debian-specific regression, as a stock Linus kernel (tag v2.6.29) doesn't have this problem. Some apps (ie, ones using gstreamer) simply refuse to run; others

Bug#504549: initramfs-tools: please add mtd/jffs2/ubifs modules to initrd when 'most' is selected

2008-11-04 Thread Andres Salomon
8854095ef36c80a4178bc2ea93fe80415019bc34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:19:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] include mtd, jffs2, and ubifs modules This adds support for mtd/jffs/ubifs when 'most' is selected. Note that this doesn't fix 'dep'. Signed-off

Bug#504550: initramfs-tools:

2008-11-04 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92l Severity: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#504551: initramfs-tools: please add support for upstream kernel's make deb-pkg

2008-11-04 Thread Andres Salomon
including it. From d86b9926cba57a91abb7096c5f467d41cbfb4ebc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:02:17 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add support for linux-2.6's deb-pkg ..via /etc/kernel Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- debian/changelog

Bug#504553: initramfs-tools: include framebuffer modules when 'most' is selected

2008-11-04 Thread Andres Salomon
includes framebuffer modules. From c52b4d1346055c0c33c2474162585be7dde7c9dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:31:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] include video (framebuffer, fbcon) modules This adds support for video/fbcon when 'most' is selected. Note

Bug#497133: initramfs-tools: explodes when kernel is booted

2008-11-04 Thread Andres Salomon
. From 586f67264971f0b8432aa99c13c9e16f009a729f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:04:09 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] allow root=mtd0 to be used skip root checks if ROOT doesn't start with /dev. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#504555: initramfs-tools: fix reboot partition support

2008-11-04 Thread Andres Salomon
). This patch fixes that by explicitly checking for something that starts with a number.From 7651875d24f8e35bf4b601beef7b7a4e8b92ad9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:56:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fix redboot partition support Fix buglet

Bug#499270: initramfs-tools: postrm.d/update-initramfs breaks removal of old kernel

2008-09-30 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, We can possibly distinguish between /etc/kernel/postinst.d getting called from kernel-package context, and upstream debpkg context. debpkg calls with the following: test -d /etc/kernel/postinst.d run-parts --arg=$version /etc/kernel/postinst.d kernel-package's uses: system

Bug#497133: initramfs-tools: explodes when kernel is booted with root=mtd0

2008-09-01 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:58:15 +0200 maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Andres Salomon wrote: Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92f On OLPC machines, root is a nand device that is mounted as mtd0 (it is neither a block device nor a char device

Bug#497133: initramfs-tools: explodes when kernel is booted with root=mtd0

2008-09-01 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:37:28 +0200 maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] --- /usr//share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions.orig 2008-09-01 11:14:11.0 -0400 +++ /usr//share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions

Bug#497133: initramfs-tools: explodes when kernel is booted with root=mtd0

2008-08-29 Thread Andres Salomon
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.92f On OLPC machines, root is a nand device that is mounted as mtd0 (it is neither a block device nor a char device). The arguments passed to the kernel are ro root=mtd0 rootfstype=jffs2. Unfortunately, attempting to use an initrd based upon initramfs-tools

Re: Selection of kernel for Lenny (was: 2.6.25-2 testing sync)

2008-07-10 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:15:14 +0200 maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:09:43PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: [...] I'm having serious trouble parsing what you're trying to say here. Could you rephrase? you never checked the rh kernel. they do a *lot* of

Bug#485192: SDHCI hacks used on OLPC

2008-06-27 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:51:52 +0200 Robert Millan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! These are the patches Andres made sent upstream: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/936294 http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linux/kernel/937056 If they don't make it to 2.6.26,

Bug#485192: SDHCI hacks used on OLPC

2008-06-08 Thread Andres Salomon
like a kludge (specially the off-by-one thing). Putting Andres Salomon on CC, as he probably knows about the reasons this was added. These are hardware workarounds; I would highly suggest waiting for this stuff to go upstream first.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#400752: linux-modules-extra-2.6: include ndiswrapper

2007-02-12 Thread Andres Salomon
Daniel Baumann wrote: Sam Morris wrote: Andreas is MIA? Or do I misunderstand? Andres didn't say something about inclusion so far, only Kel. And Kel has a bouncing email address. Sorry, that's my fault; he has updated packages for me to sponsor, but I just haven't had time. Anyways, try

Bug#400752: linux-modules-extra-2.6: include ndiswrapper

2007-02-12 Thread Andres Salomon
Sam Morris wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 12:45 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Daniel Baumann wrote: Sam Morris wrote: Andreas is MIA? Or do I misunderstand? Andres didn't say something about inclusion so far, only Kel. And Kel has a bouncing email address. Sorry, that's my fault; he has

Bug#362064: udev: udev tries to write to an installed, working initrd without asking

2006-08-20 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, Here's a use case where having initramfs-tools unconditionally update initramfs images is a bad thing (at the very least, violating the principal of least surprise). I had a machine that was had a poorly supported sata_mv chipset; dapper nor sarge w/ 2.6.15/2.6.16 images would install onto

additional mailing list request

2006-03-23 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, I've made a new request for an additional kernel discussion list: http://bugs.debian.org/358625 Part of the process involves other interested people following up to the bug. So, can people who would like to see the additional list please follow up to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and express their

removal of svenl from the kernel team

2006-03-23 Thread Andres Salomon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to remove Sven Luther from the kernel team (that is, remove his svn commit privileges, as well as remove him from the Uploaders field of kernel packages), and remove him from the debian-kernel (and debian-kernel-devel, when it is

Re: removal of svenl from the kernel team

2006-03-23 Thread Andres Salomon
Alright Sven, this is the last time I'm ever going to respond to you. I've wasted enough time on this. Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:23:11PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to remove Sven Luther from the kernel

Re: Modules packaging policy - call for discussion

2006-03-22 Thread Andres Salomon
Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, It is pretty obvious (to me, at least) that the need for the official packaging policy for the out-of-tree kernel modules is long overdue. As mentioned on the wiki page dedicated to it [0], the current situation is a mess. I would like to call for a formal

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 11:25 +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le Mer 15 Mars 2006 03:01, Andres Salomon a écrit : Hi, I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed from the project. The process is outlined here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-15 Thread Andres Salomon
The DAM has accepted the request; please send seconds directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED], cc'ing me as well. For the people who seem to think that there are more constructive ways of dealing w/ this issue rather than the expulsion process: http://squishy.cc/svenl.txt This is a lot from two weeks

removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-14 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, I am going through the expulsion process to have Sven Luther removed from the project. The process is outlined here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08/msg5.html, and I have already completed step 1. Step #2 requires the support of some 15 developers. I am attempting

Re: removal of svenl from the project

2006-03-14 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:01 -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] Sven has always been a nuisance to deal w/, but up until now I have not considered this action. In the past two weeks, the following comments made by him have changed my mind: 2006-03-07: svenl jonas: i hope we never again meet

volatile backport

2005-09-25 Thread Andres Salomon
-package versioned build-dep. + * Drop gcc-4.0 build dep. + + -- Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 26 Sep 2005 00:22:34 -0400 + linux-2.6 (2.6.12-6) unstable; urgency=high [ Andres Salomon, Bastian Blank ] --- linux-2.6-2.6.12.orig/debian/templates/control.source.in2005-09-26 00:58

Re: standardizing on a language

2005-09-22 Thread Andres Salomon
Ok, looks like people seem to want python more; I'll start rewriting my tools to be in python, and working on the common lib stuff. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: standardizing on a language

2005-09-20 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:23:30AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] Preferences? Once we have a common language, we can have a common library as well (ages ago, I wrote half a Kconfig parser in racc; that seems like it'd be useful for all kinds of scripts, but I'm not going to spend any

Re: standardizing on a language

2005-09-20 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:52:23AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:23:30AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] I'm rather disappointed by the lack of responses to this. I don't intend to do any more infrastructure work on the kernel packages until we pick something

Re: standardizing on a language

2005-09-20 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 03:47:34PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:53:18AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 06:52:23AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: I don't know anything about ruby. Well, others are going to have to learn as well. As I said, I

Re: modules

2005-09-19 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 19:24 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:25:31PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] Alright, I think I'm a fan of #2. The module maintainers upload their packages to sid, with the binary package module-source in there. We have a package called

Re: modules

2005-09-19 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 19:36 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:34:22PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 19:24 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 01:25:31PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] Alright, I think I'm a fan of #2

Re: [Secure-testing-team] kernel update

2005-09-15 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 11:03 +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Joey Hess wrote: Now that 2.6.12 is finally in testing and work is well underway to remove 2.6.8, I think we can switch to tracking security holes in the new kernel now. There are several items listed as unfixed in 2.6.8, would

Re: In preparation for 2.6.13 - initrd issues

2005-09-12 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:23:25PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hello, As you probably know, the 2.6.13 kernel is out, and we are facing some problems with packaging it for Debian. A major change compared to 2.6.12 is the discontinued support for devfs, which, I understand, renders current

Re: how to detect a debian kernel from `uname -r`

2005-09-10 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 11:16:38PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Hello everyone, I'm trying to detect a debian kernel from uname -r. My suggestion would be to add a -debian at the end of the localversion of kernels _patched_/modified by debian, and to leave the localversion completely

standardizing on a language

2005-09-07 Thread Andres Salomon
a Kconfig parser in racc; that seems like it'd be useful for all kinds of scripts, but I'm not going to spend any more time on it until we decide whether I should continue in racc, or use something python-y). -- Andres Salomon [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

2.6.12-6 release

2005-09-06 Thread Andres Salomon
Unless anyone has objections, I intend to upload 2.6.12-6 tomorrow. The only flavour that fails to oldconfig is arm/config.s3c2410; Vincent, can you please fix that? The following shouldn't prompt: cat debian/arch/config .config cat debian/arch/arm/config.s3c2410 .config make oldconfig

svn layout confusion

2005-09-06 Thread Andres Salomon
Ok, so now that we have dists/sid and dists/trunk (which is for development and experimental stuff); how is this actually supposed to work? I understand the scenario when we have 2.6.12 in sid and 2.6.13rc in trunk; stick any new development stuff in trunk, backport to sid if desired, do sid

Re: svn layout confusion

2005-09-06 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:25 +0900, Horms wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:51:06AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: Ok, so now that we have dists/sid and dists/trunk (which is for development and experimental stuff); how is this actually supposed to work? I understand the scenario when we

Re: svn layout confusion

2005-09-06 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 15:20 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 08:51:06AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: Ok, so now that we have dists/sid and dists/trunk (which is for development and experimental stuff); how is this actually supposed to work? I understand the scenario

Re: 2.6.12-6 release

2005-09-06 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 04:15:25AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] For other architectures, if there are any issues, let me know; otherwise I'll build and upload 2.6.12-6 tomorrow. http://people.debian.org/~dilinger/kernel/2.6.12-6/ Go nuts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: modules

2005-09-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:28:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] Well, my idea is to try to host all those module package in the kernel subversion tree (under modules), in such a way that we can trigger automated or semi-automated uploads of them in case of kernel abi changes. I assume

Re: firmware packages

2005-09-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 09:11:22PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi folks Are there any attempts to provide firmware images which are needed for several hardware and not included in the kernel as packages? Such as? I'm not aware of any firmware that's not included in the kernel that we're

Re: changelog format

2005-09-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 08:59 +0900, Horms wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:58:30PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:35:25AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:30:41AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] Well, we have not decided, the first

Bug#324202: include ReiserFS ACL support in 2.6.12 kernel

2005-09-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:45:18AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: [...] First: this discussion is pointless and always ends in people promoting their favorite toy (only). Pretty much. So how do you know they are reliable? For me, XFS began eating my files after 1.5years of usage, and the

Re: changelog format

2005-09-01 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:35:25AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 12:30:41AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] Well, we have not decided, the first [author] is thrown in by dch, and people are still using the same format as always, and maybe not always remove the [author

changelog format

2005-08-31 Thread Andres Salomon
). (Andres Salomon, Bastian Blank) * powerpc-apus.patch: Added preliminary apus patch, not applied though. (Sven Luther) * powerpc-pmac-sound-check.patch: Added. (Sven Luther) * [i386] Unset CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE in i386 config, it breaks iproute's (and other netlink users

Re: SVN layout

2005-08-30 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:33 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 05:41:34PM +0900, Horms wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 05:53:38PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:53:41PM +0900, Horms wrote: [...] svk may

Re: prepare 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:22:08PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:50:33AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: BTW, was 2.6.13 already released ? Or any idea when it will be ? The mail arrived 2:17 MEST. Also, i believe we need a 2.6.12-6 upload which fix the remaining

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Debian mkinitrd: Integrate kdump

2005-08-26 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:07:29PM +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote: Hi The following set of patches made on mkinitrd (from initrd-tools package:version 0.1.82), would enable the integration of kdump with Debian. For more details about the kexec based kdump solution please refer to

Re: SVN layout

2005-08-26 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:53:41PM +0900, Horms wrote: [...] svk may be different, if so, this is a excellent time to discuss that. It just gets crazy if it can't find merge points. Could you elaborate a little. I think you are the only one using svk at

Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: Moving forward with the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels

2005-08-18 Thread Andres Salomon
On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 18:51 +0900, Horms wrote: [...] Obviously the security team needs to be involved. However CCing them on emails seems largely fruitless. Do you have any ideas on how to work with them to make this release happen? It is becoming quite frustrating to say the least. My

Bug#323452: hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x21 errors + freeze (VIA VT82C686 chipset)

2005-08-17 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:02:31PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] Then is there any reason why SMART doesn't detect any problem except some errors at power-on time? And why don't I get such errors with a 2.6 kernel (though I haven't done much testing) if it is not a problem with the 2.4

cross compilation breaking sparc build?

2005-08-17 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, Specifying --arch $(ARCH) unconditionally is what's breaking the sparc kernel build (and it just seems like a bad idea). First, shouldn't we just specify this if we're cross-compiling (ifneq ($(DEB_BUILD_ARCH),$(DEB_HOST_ARCH))) ? Second, --arch's arg needs to match what include/asm points

Bug#323143: ip neigh flush (iproute) hangs because CONFIG_ATM_CLIP=y

2005-08-16 Thread Andres Salomon
severity 323143 wishlist retitle 323143 linux-2.6: CONFIG_ATM_CLIP should be configured as a module thanks On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:08:18PM -0700, Alvaro Martinez Echevarria wrote: Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-1 Severity: normal Hi, Regarding this problem with iproute:

Bug#322723: Bug#323143: ip neigh flush (iproute) hangs because CONFIG_ATM_CLIP=y

2005-08-16 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 02:13 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 16 August 2005 19:35, Andres Salomon wrote: [...] This should probably be the case anyways, as it appears to be marked EXPERIMENTAL, and the config does support tristate. Not only that, but it's configured differently across

Re: Bug#323183: Please remove some linux packages from sid

2005-08-16 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:22:33PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:23:52AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: This will break a lot packages depending on one of those, including but

Re: 2.6.12 in volatile?

2005-08-10 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 07:21:06AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: [...] Wrong, linux-2.6 needs at least version 9.005 of kernel-package. So either we backport it to sarge, or i provide a patch of the needed functionality for the version of kernel-package in sarge. Is it just powerpc that needs

Bug#295678: kernel-image packages with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y enabled

2005-08-10 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:57:35AM +0900, Horms wrote: On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 05:34:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 11:29 +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello The problems is not Dell PowerEdge specific. My TYAN Tiger-i7320-S5350 (standard dual xeon server

2.6.12 in volatile?

2005-08-09 Thread Andres Salomon
Hi, So, was there any decision whether to provide 2.6.8+security in volatile, or just backport linux-2.6 (2.6.12)? I need to do a 2.6.12 backport, so if people are wanting 2.6.12 for volatile, I'll do that; however, if people want 2.6.8+security in volatile, I'll just put 2.6.12 in

Bug#315968: kernel: usb-storage not working, system freeze

2005-08-09 Thread Andres Salomon
reopen 315968 tags 315968 + sarge thanks I assume you meant to CC [EMAIL PROTECTED] :) On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:30:59PM +0900, Horms wrote: reopen 315968 thanks This bug is still valid for 2.6.8, so lets leave it here for now. At the very least we can use it to coodinate known problems

Bug#322086: ALSA support for ali5451 is sill broken

2005-08-09 Thread Andres Salomon
For future reference, the original bug is #303311. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#321964: linux-2.6: package that depends on all -headers for $arch

2005-08-08 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:52:33PM +0200, Max Vozeler wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.12-1 Severity: wishlist There used to exist packages that depend on all -headers packages for a particular arch (eg. kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-i386). This is very useful for build-depends when

Re: linux-2.6_2.6.12-2_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-08-08 Thread Andres Salomon
at unstable. I guess we need an epoch Give the man an epoch! 2.6.12-2 is re-tagged in svn, w/ some epoch spiffiness that waldi did; only the transition packages (kernel-image-*) got epoch'd. We're both building test packages.. Hopefully this should appease katie. -- Andres Salomon [EMAIL

Re: linux-2.6 - subarch and patches

2005-08-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 19:55:12 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Hi folks linux-2.6 currently supports something called subarch. It should be used for incompatible patches. This is needed for m68k and I think mips. Problems with this - mostly unimplemented, - namingschema differs from anything

Re: Sarge kernels and Volatile

2005-08-03 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:10 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:43:42PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: until fairly recently; we've gotten conflicting answers ranging from We should provide kernel updates and the security team will use them verbatim generally the security

Re: Sarge kernels and Volatile

2005-08-02 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 13:54 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:07:50PM +0900, Horms wrote: Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. However it seems that working with the security team on this is difficult - lack of response being a primary issue. What response do you want? I

Re: Sarge kernels and Volatile

2005-08-01 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:40:26 +0900, Horms wrote: On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:28:37AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: * Horms ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050801 08:23]: I am wondering if others thing that volatile is a good place for us to make uploads of updated 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 kerels for Sarge?

Re: linux-2.6_2.6.12-1_i386.changes is NEW

2005-07-24 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:51:31 -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: - readdition of tg3 driver, as firmware license has been fixed It's distributable, but only in non-free. No source code for the firmware program. Sorry. :-P Ask debian-legal if you have further questions about that. Yep,

goals for 2.6.12-2 (and beyond)

2005-07-21 Thread Andres Salomon
linux-2.6_2.6.12-1 just hit incoming, woo! My definite goals for 2.6.12-2 are: - differentiate between @longclass@ and @class@, as Frederik pointed out that the @class@ in 2.6.12-1 was making the synopsis line too long. This is already checked into svn; it's up to arch people to update

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