Re: failed to insert STA entry for the AP (error -2)

2022-12-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi all, adding the debian-kernel list due to issues with using debian-installer daily snapshot to install on my brand new laptop with an ath11k_pci supported wifi chip. It turns out that while d-i comes with the ath11k and ath11k_pci drivers, but misses the qrtr, qrtr-mki and michael_mic modules

Bug#1025158: please include qrtr and qrtr-mhi in nic-wireless-modules

2022-11-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Source: linux Version: 6.0.0-5 Severity: wishlist Please include the qrtr and qrtr-mhi in the nic-wireless-modules binary package (or another one pulled in by DI). These modules are required by ath11k_pci to work, which is needed to install on e.g. a Thinkpad T14s Gen3 AMD.

Bug#962254: Umask ignored when mounting NFSv4.2 share of an exported ZFS (with acltype=off) (was: Re: Bug#962254: NFS(v4) broken at 4.19.118-2)

2020-06-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
If you are violating our license please also don't spam our list when using your crappy combination.

Re: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13

2017-11-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 03:43:10PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > do you think you could manage to either point the general -devel > reading population to a discussion of why using AppArmor by default is > horrible news, or write that yourself? That would seem to be more > constructive than you

Re: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13

2017-11-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 01:59:44PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2017-11-23 at 14:58 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 01:55:49PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > AppArmor is the default LSM. > > > > There is no such thing as a def

Re: recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13

2017-11-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 01:55:49PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > AppArmor is the default LSM. There is no such thing as a default LSM in Linux. > > The changelog suggests it was done that systemd units might use it, > > but in that case those systemd units should depend on apparmor. > > They

recommends for apparmor in newest linux-image-4.13

2017-11-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Hi all, is there any good reason for the recommends of apparmor in the latest linux packages? apparomor is just one of many security modules, and a fairly bogus one to start with. The kernel should not recommend it as it doesn't add at all to the expected kernel functionality. The changelog

Re: [PATCH] x86/kbuild: enable modversions for symbols exported from asm

2016-12-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 10:20:39AM -0500, Don Zickus wrote: > > - provide the memory allocation (instead of having the driver staticly > allocate) > - provide functions to retrieve various internal data (instead of having the > driver do direct referencing to deep internal elements) > - cut

Bug#828826: nfs-common: move of rpc_pipefs mountpoint to /run breaks blkmapd

2016-06-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Package: nfs-common Version: 1:1.2.8-9 Severity: important Tags: patch Dear Maintainer, commit ba649fa4 ("Migrate the rpc_pipefs mount out of /var/lib to /run, to better support /var on NFS.") in the Debian packaging repo completely broke blkmapd, which still looks for rpc_pipefs in the old

Bug#738758: [PATCH] ext4: kill i_version support for Hurd-castrated file systems

2014-03-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:27:57PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: Probably worthwhile to make those !EXT4_OS_HURD checks likely()? Does it make sense to support the format at all given that it's unlikely to get any testing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Bug#696650: fsync() on read-only RAID triggers BUG

2013-01-27 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 07:44:40PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: I applied this on top of 3.2.37 and it certainly fixes the crash. However I wonder whether fsync() should fail or should immediately succeed. I don't know whether the installer expects it to succeed. It should succeed. -- To

Bug#569598: disk caches?

2010-02-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Do you have disk write caches disabled on the machine? Neither md, nor dm, nor loop pass through barrier requests. Without disabling the volatile write cache on the disks you will lose data everytime the machine is not shut down cleanly. The messages you see are typical for that kind of

Bug#569598: disk caches?

2010-02-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:58:06AM -0500, Philipp Weis wrote: On 2010-02-16 11:21, Christoph Hellwig h...@lst.de wrote: Do you have disk write caches disabled on the machine? Neither md, nor dm, nor loop pass through barrier requests. Without disabling the volatile write cache

Bug#569598: disk caches?

2010-02-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:42:25PM -0500, Philipp Weis wrote: How could it end up in the page cache for this setup? There is no filesystem layer below the loop device. Any write that reaches the loop device is passed through to lvm, then md and finally the disk. Are you saying that there is

Bug#486798: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux

2008-06-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:58:05AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: There is an effort underway to bring the MOL kernel modules into a mergeable form. But it's not there yet. Joseph Jezak, the MOl main developer nowdays is working on it. So MOL no longer want's to hide out of tree. It just needs

Bug#486798: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux

2008-06-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:14:02PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: Hi The kernel modules for Mac on Linux (MOL) need handle_mm_fault. MOL is a GPL licensed virtual machine to run MacOS(X) on PPC Linux. Has been rejected a few times. An now that we actually have kvm for powerpc in tree MOL

Bug#486798: [PATCH] restore export of handle_mm_fault for Mac on Linux

2008-06-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:45:02PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: Has been rejected a few times. An now that we actually have kvm for powerpc in tree MOL should just merge with that project and do the right things in tree instead of beeing a really hacky module subverting the VM. We

Re: Dropping the amd64-generic flavour

2006-06-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 08:20:56AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: * Frederik Schueler: -generic is odd and too long. I am considering to change the naming scheme completely, and call the flavours 2.6.x-y-amd64 and 2.6.x-y-em64t respectively. Newer GCCs produce AMD64 code which is

Re: linux-2.6 - patch cleanup

2006-02-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:40:58PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: * drivers-scsi-megaraid_splitup.patch Unsubmitted. misses parts of the splitup, needs an update by fabbione which is in ubuntu. this should be deal with properly in 2.6.16-rc. Better backport the megaraid drivers from

Re: [kernel] r5087 - in dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/arch: alpha amd64 hppa i386 ia64 s390

2005-12-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 01:31:34PM +, Frederik Sch??ler wrote: Author: fschueler-guest Date: Sun Dec 25 13:31:33 2005 New Revision: 5087 Modified: dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/arch/alpha/config dists/trunk/linux-2.6/debian/arch/amd64/config

Re: Preparing 2.6.14-6 release, getting 2.6.15-rc into shape

2005-12-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:50:48PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: - powerpc-calibrate-tau.patch - powerpc-g3-750cxe.patch Can we get them posted to linuxppc-dev again, please? - tty-locking-fixes9.patch this patch was always broken, but the underlying issue it has been papering over has

Re: [kernel] r4992 - in dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian: . patches-debian patches-debian/series

2005-12-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 05:01:27PM +, Dann Frazier wrote: Author: dannf Date: Thu Dec 8 17:01:26 2005 New Revision: 4992 Added: dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/patches-debian/drivers-scsi-buslogic-sysfs.patch Modified: dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian/changelog

Re: [kernel] r4992 - in dists/sid/linux-2.6/debian: . patches-debian patches-debian/series

2005-12-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:31:19PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: I'm not sure how this interface gets exposed to userspace, or how it helps initramfs-tools - I just inferred from the bug report that this led to this information being exposed in sysfs where initramfs-tools (via udev) could use it

Bug#341522: Drivers for sbus devices are not included in initrd on sparc

2005-12-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 09:54:46PM -0800, Jurij Smakov wrote: Package: yaird Version: 0.0.11-12 Severity: important Hi, As I've mentioned on d-k, the sbus devices found in some early Ultras are not properly sysfs-trained. As a result, yaird currently fails to include the SCSI driver

Re: 2.6.14 kernel udebs and d-i

2005-11-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
16. Looked at the sun cassini nic card .. not quite sure why it's in the i386 kernel since some docs I find online seems to suggest it only works with Sun HW, but assumed the kernel team has a reason and added it to list. it's just a normal pci card, although afaik not shipped

Re: cdrecord and newer Linux kernels

2005-11-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:47:29PM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: In kernel 2.6.8 and later, SCSI generic commands are verified for safety. This may be a reasonable measure in some respects, but it makes effective non-root CD/DVD burning rather difficult. For best performance cdrecord, growisofs

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 12:29:20PM +0900, Horms wrote: do I take that comment to mean that upstream can't update the drivers but Debian can? And if so, do you recommend updating Debian's kernel packages, or putting the updates elsewhere? Well, we could upstream, but so far no one is annoyed

Re: ancient ieee80211/ipw2200 drivers in recent kernel (2.6.14)

2005-11-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:54:09PM +0600, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: So, having in mind the two levels of 'stablenesss': kernel 'stableness' and modules 'stableness' :) we should find the way to exclude discussed modules from the build, because in-kernel versions will always be, erm..., slightly

Re: realtime-lsm and Debian kernel

2005-10-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 06:24:20AM -0500, Geiger Guenter wrote: This means that it has to be dropped. Thats ok with me, it means less work. What was the reason again for not including the capabilities as a module ? Making Security modules actually modular means they don't have the full view of

Re: realtime-lsm and Debian kernel

2005-10-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:15:11PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: Can this be considered a bug and should I file a bug report ? wishlist+upstream for proper chain support. chaining was rejected upstream already. For a good reason because chanining access control decisions in multiple modules

Re: Observation re third parties supporting Debian kernels

2005-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 07:02:57PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: Hi, I attended a product briefing at Computer Associates on Thursday, and one of the products that was discussed more than demonstrated was something called eTrust Access Control[1], which, from my interpretation, sounds like it

Bug#329047: linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7: please enable CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR (and inotify)

2005-09-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:56:25PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7 Version: 2.6.12-6 Severity: wishlist I would like CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR to be enabled so that the beagle desktop search and indexing daemon is faster. Also, when 2.6.13 is uploaded, be sure to

Bug#328740: linux-source-2.6.12: xfs filesystem corruption

2005-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
This looks like a typical corruption caused by not turning off the write cache on your disks. Is the write cache on your disk on or off? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#328740: linux-source-2.6.12: xfs filesystem corruption

2005-09-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:33:06AM +, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote: Le 17.09.2005 11:18:02, Christoph Hellwig a ?crit?: This looks like a typical corruption caused by not turning off the write cache on your disks. Is the write cache on your disk on or off? The disks are SATA disks

Re: acct v3 support

2005-09-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 02:57:47PM -0700, Ryan Lovett wrote: Are there plans to have more architectures enable the newer accounting file format via CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3 ? I'm actually only interested in amd64. $ egrep 'CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT_V3=y|linux-2.6-2.6.12/debian/arch/' \

Bug#324202: include ReiserFS ACL support in 2.6.12 kernel

2005-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Can we please stop this my filesystem is better than yours crap? As far as the debian kernel packages are concerned we should support all filesystems supported upstream unless there's a very good reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Bug#326730: linux-source-2.6.12: Netfilter and IPSec patches in 2.6

2005-09-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 12:38:21PM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote: Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Severity: normal Hi, Please can we have the patches in 2.6 for netfilter and ipsec, and the policy match patch in iptables. See http://www.shorewall.net/IPSEC-2.6.html Dave Miller wasn't happy

Bug#326576: linux-2.6: xfs support for user_xattr dissappeard?

2005-09-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 10:33:57AM +0200, Chris Searle wrote: Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal Seen this with -1-k7 and with -1-686. Am testing beagle - so I needed to turn on user_xattr. But - when I upgraded from kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7/-1-686 to linux-image-2.6.12-1-k7/-1-686 -

Re: SVN layout

2005-08-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
But right now there are two problems that need to be resolved so we know where things are supposed to go. 1. Should linux-2.6 go in trunk/kernel/ or just trunk. Given that we no longer need source and per-arch directories, it seems logical to just move it up to trunk/ But thats a

Re: SVN layout

2005-08-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
oh, and additional point, could we stop moving things around without a prior discussion on this list in the future? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerpc d-i daily builds reactivated, use 2.6.12 kernels, including 64bit kernels, miboot floppies dropped for now.

2005-08-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 02:18:07AM -0300, Rog?rio Brito wrote: Remember the debian kernel is generic for all powerpc plateforms, from old world to prep boxes, to powerbooks to the last 32bit IBM chrps and the genesi pegasos machine, so there is a bit more constraints here, but it is

Re: r4021 - trunk/kernel

2005-08-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:59:51AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: Ok, this is a mess, so we probably need to hold a little flamewar about how we want the tree organized or something, before we start moving stuff back and fort. I believe that the trunk is for main development, and it is important

Bug#297832: [powerpc] iBook2 will not wake from sleep

2005-08-12 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:34:06AM +0200, Maximilian Attems wrote: any update on the matter? have you tried linux image 2.6.12? Note that I had the same problem when I still had my iBook2.2. The problem only occurs if X runs or did run. When I booted with X disabled it worked just fine, so it

Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: Bug#322273: [CAN-2005-2456]: XFRM array index buffer overflow

2005-08-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Horms wrote: As for which package to log a bug against, or cretion of duplicate bugs. To be honest it doesn't matter. If you email debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, then you should get a response, regardless of if you open

Re: linux-2.6 - subarch and patches

2005-08-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:47:53AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 07:57:22PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 07:55:12PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: - Each arch may specify an architectury specific patch, each image package may specify another

Re: linux-2.6 - subarch and patches

2005-08-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 07:55:12PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: - Each arch may specify an architectury specific patch, each image package may specify another patch, it may shared between more than one image. Or fix the architectures to not require them. The mips changes are fine for any

Bug#315654: devfs is being removed NOW

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 08:22:31PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: The 2.6.13 rc kernels have devfs removed. Debian won't support 2.6.13 until this problem is fixed. Debian works just fine without devfs once installed, thanks. Please reassign to whatever d-i component relies on devfs to pull in

Re: [job] VMWare kernel development.

2005-07-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 11:23:20AM +0300, martin f krafft wrote: You Debian kernel guys would be whom I'd refer... please contact Michael if you are interested. Folks, do we really need to spam mailinglists with job offers? Especially for a known copyright violator on gpl'ed kernel code like

Re: Feedback from DebConf5 Talk

2005-07-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 03:31:56PM +0300, dann frazier wrote: Thanks to dilinger/horms/josk/svenl for sitting up front providing the real content to backup my slides :) What all feedback did you get afterwards? One comment I heard was that users would like to have _every_ kernel-image have

Bug#317288: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-k7: Package configuration stops with error if wacom kernel modules are installed

2005-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:14:14PM +0200, Martin Wesemann wrote: ?/lib/modules/2.6.11-1-k7/kernel/drivers/usb/input/wacom.ko? which is also in package wacom-kernel-modules-2.6.11-1-k7 dpkg-deb: Subprocess paste killed with Signal (data transfer interrupted (broken pipe)) The package

Re: ppc64 biarch toolchain and 64bit powerpc kernels ...

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: timeframe to get a ppc64 biarch toolchain in sid or even experimental ? Or should i rely on the ubuntu toolchain, and use that to upload kernels to sid in the near future ? Together with a statically built procps naturally ? The sid

Re: ppc64 biarch toolchain and 64bit powerpc kernels ...

2005-06-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: timeframe to get a ppc64 biarch toolchain in sid or even experimental ? Or should i rely

Re: Bug#312699: Please have hotplug rescan the scsi bus for scsi loads.

2005-06-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 07:14:22PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: reassign 312699 kernel thanks On Jun 09, Michael Heldebrant Ph.D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For a Dell Latitude X200 laptop and docking station is is necessary to manually run scsiadd -s to enable the cdrom drive through the

Re: RFC: New uniform packaging scheme

2005-05-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:04:33PM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote: Kernel packages are uniquely identified by their architecture, subarchitecture and flavour. For most arches the kernel images are built from the same source (upstream source with all-arch Debian patches), using different

Re: RFC: New uniform packaging scheme

2005-05-23 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 05:20:06PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:04:33PM -0400, Jurij Smakov wrote: Kernel packages are uniquely identified by their architecture, subarchitecture and flavour. For most arches the kernel images are built from the same source

Bug#309378: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: CONFIG_PREEMPT is set, and seems to cause oop'es with openafs.

2005-05-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:33:42PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp Version: 2.6.8-13 Severity: important I got the following oops today on a machine with openafs-modules-1.3.81: afs_put_inode: ino 6501078 (0xf68cdc00) has count 2 afs_put_inode: ino

Bug#309378: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: CONFIG_PREEMPT is set, and seems to cause oop'es with openafs.

2005-05-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:19:00PM -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: Then why is CONFIG_PREEMPT disabled in 2.6.11 ? The real problem is preempt is enabled. Because it doesn't provide much benefits while letting broken code explode. That doesn't mean you should file such reports against against

Re: dpt_i2o for amd64

2005-04-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 12:10:31AM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: Hello, I have a dpt_i2o card myself wich I had to remove from my workstation when I moved to amd64, I know your problem pretty well. Thus I am interested in this patch, I tried to contact adaptec back then but got no

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 05:34:56AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: For tg3 a transition period shouldn't be needed as firmware loading is only needed on old/buggy hardware which is not the common case. Or to support advanced features which can be disabled. TSO firmware is commonly used these days.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do anything about it

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I think they will be accepted if they first introduce a transition period where tg3 will do request_firmware() and only use the built-in firmware if that fails. Fine with me. Second step is to make the built-in firmware a

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. I think that's what we should do. I currently don't have any firmware requiring

Re: preempt on/off i386

2005-01-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 07:45:18PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: can i turn off CONFIG_PREEMPT on the 386 arch, it's the only arch that features the costly: CONFIG_PREEMPT=y all other debian arch turn it off for good. Yes, please do. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Bug#291375: initrd-tools for Debian are one big mess

2005-01-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 07:25:21PM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Hellwig wrote: | Complete agreement here. We're still looking for a volunteer, though | ;-) | | Come on! I had offered to take over initrd-tools several months ago

Bug#291232: kernel-source-2.6.10: Cannot burn DVD as normal user

2005-01-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:44:23AM -0500, Brian Pack wrote: Package: kernel-source-2.6.10 Version: 2.6.10-4 Severity: important Tags: patch When running as normal user with kernel 2.6.10, growisofs gives the following error when attempting to burn a DVD: Executing 'builtin_dd

Bug#284952: The USB block device should be disabled

2005-01-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 02:17:28PM +0900, Horms wrote: I thought it already was marked as n. Does anyone have an objection to making this so? No, please turn it off. I hadn't realized it's turned on either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#281905: please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I've put in the patch and enabled CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION for the i386 and amd64 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 kernel packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#268621: Reproducable in parts

2005-01-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 05:14:40PM +0100, Florian Boelstler wrote: Hi, just want to mention that I can reproduce the problem with a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.8-12 using: cdda2wav -t 1 dev=ATA:1,0,0 and cdda2wav -t 1 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 However it does not occur when I specify the

Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:49:54AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Christoph Hellwig wrote: Best thing for 2TB disks is to use LVM anyway At least as far as d-i is concerned (AFAICT), you have to put LVM on top of an existing partition table; you can't just use the full /dev/sda

Re: Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:24:26PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:17PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: At least as far as d-i is concerned (AFAICT), you have to put LVM on top of an existing partition table; you can't just use the full /dev/sda or whatever

Re: r2230 - in trunk/kernel/source/kernel-source-2.6.10-2.6.10/debian: . patches patches/series

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+ static int __init init_ext3_fs(void) + { + int err = init_ext3_xattr(); ++ ++/* fix for oops */ ++printk(KERN_ERR [%d] init_ext3_fs(), err = %d\n, __LINE__, err); urgg, this is not a fix but a hack. Should look more like: /* ugly hack to work around compiler bug

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:40:06PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: I think the effort to do so is better invested elsewhere. As a general rule, the kernel team strives to keep the debian-specific patches to a minimum. For people without in-depth kernel knowledge it's probably best to take the full

Bug#281905: #281905 please enable CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION; it's needed for 2TiB

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
severity 281905 wishlist thanks The EFI format is unfortunately rather misdesigned and has a backup data area at the end of the devices - which won't be acciable by lots of usb devices because they have broken size reporting. This alone wouldn't be a problem if we could simply probe EFI last,

Bug#286028: #286028 installation-reports: loading tg3 module for Broadcom NIC causes total freeze of system

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
please try installing with a 2.6 kernel, it has a much more uptodate tg3 driver (and various other advantages)

Bug#283241: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7: 2.6.8 and 2.6.9: utime(2) hangs on smbfs

2005-01-08 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:36:27PM +0100, S?ren Hansen wrote: This bug does not exist in the vanilla version of 2.6.8. A patch added somewhere in the Debian kernel-source-2.6.8 packages breaks it. I, however, cannot seem to find any patches that should touch smbfs, so I can't point it out. I

Re: preparing 2.6.10

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:15:51AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: Alright, enough people are bothering me for 2.6.10 that we should probably get it into sid. I've committed a bunch of bk backports to the svn 2.6.10 k-s directory (small, obvious fixes for the most part); I'm going to aim for

Bug#288787: IPTables does not work with kernel 2.6.8

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:52:26PM +0100, Kurt Huwig wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-9-amd64-k8 Version: 2.6.8-8 Fresh installation of Sarge with all updates from today: iptables doesn't work when you're running 32bit userland on 64bit kernel, and it's not fixable either. Run an i386

Re: preparing 2.6.10

2005-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:18:04PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h * Andres Salomon [Wed, Jan 05 2005, 12:15:51AM]: Alright, enough people are bothering me for 2.6.10 that we should probably get it into sid. I've committed a bunch of bk backports to the svn 2.6.10 k-s

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
By the way, is there a guide somewhere telling how to switch an unstable system from 2.4 to 2.6? An install of the appropinquate kernel-image package should do it. At least it did for me on various ppc and an x86_64 installed as i386 system.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:57AM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: Yes, converting from devfs to udev is one thing that doesn't seem to be easy. Another one is the ISDN support. Hasn't that changed significantly, too? And what's going to happen with /etc/modutils/*, how much manual tweaking

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:37:59PM +0100, Stephan Niemz wrote: The kernel version 2.4.28 is out for almost seven weeks now. Does anybody know about the status of the corresponding Debian packages? And is there an estimation for when the kernel-patch-* packages will support the new kernel

Bug#288263: initrd-tools: capability module missing from /etc/mkinitrd/modules

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:22:28PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.65 Severity: normal 2.6.9 and above now have capability as a module. if this module is not loaded, udev will not operate properly. and with the module loaded we'll have a

Bug#288263: initrd-tools: capability module missing from /etc/mkinitrd/modules

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:52:19PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: oh dear! ... so it'll be CONFIG_CAPABILITY=y? yes. selinux also is now a module and it too should probably be loaded, no, it's not. 2.6.9 it's CONFIG_SELINUX=y? Guess so.

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:16:44PM +, Tim Cutts wrote: 2.6 is still too new as far as most ISVs are concerned, and so Debian shouldn't lower the priority of work on 2.4 kernels too much just yet, in my opinion. Debian isn't lowering priority on Linux 2.4 work but individual people are.

Re: Problem with XFS and/or VM deadlock in 2.6.8

2004-12-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:16:00AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I have been having trouble with the filesystem apparently locking up on a P4 2.8GHz HT machine (1GB ram, dual 120G SATA in raid1 with LVM on top). It locks up when I try and delete a lot of small files at once. Yesterday I

Bug#284356: New release changed symbols thus rendering modules unloadable

2004-12-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:04:40AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Horms [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-12-15 13:28]: I checked 2.6 upstream and the refcount field is present. Curiously upstream 2.4 seems to neither include this field nor a fix for CAN-2004-0814 (N.B not CAN-2004-081 as I

Bug#278887: initrd-tools: Caused by megaraid2 module using /proc/scsi/megaraid

2004-12-13 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 06:38:57AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philipp Niemann wrote: | | In the script /usr/sbin/mkinitrd, Line 497, is a find which seems to | search /proc/scsi for modules needed to mount the root device. If one | has the

Bug#284141: initrd-tools: no SCSI should not be a fatal error

2004-12-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:10:35PM +, Michael Shields wrote: Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.74 Severity: normal mkinitrd contains the lines: 8 | 11) if [ ! -d /proc/scsi ]; then echo $PROG: Cannot determine SCSI module 2

Re: Simultaneous loading of e100 and eepro100 by hotplug

2004-12-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:41:59PM +0100, Christoffer Sawicki wrote: What if the PCI ID associations in the kernel for eepro100 and e100 were changed so that a card is only associated with the module it works (best) with? The only issue I see with this approach is collecting the necesary

Re: Dropping 386 support

2004-10-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 07:54:12PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: The d-i images really need to be built from kernel-image packages that are in the archive at the time we ship. Optimizing for 486 isn't a very good reason on its own to force another kernel build cycle. I

Bug#249510: acknowledged by developer (selinux in debian kernel)

2004-09-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:14:20PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: it's not a severe performance penalty. especially when it's disabled by default with selinux=0. Yes, all the indirect calls due to CONFIG_SECURITY are a performance penalty.

Bug#249510: acknowledged by developer (selinux in debian kernel)

2004-09-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:54:21PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:33:28PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:14:20PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: it's not a severe performance penalty. especially when it's

Re: tcp window problem in 2.6.8.1

2004-09-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 03:37:18PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: * Jaakko Niemi wrote: [...] Has anyone looked at this issue? I could not find anything from list archives or from bts with quick search. A few days ago, Christoph mention that this has been fixed in svn already. I

Re: aic7902 no longer works with 2.6.8-6

2004-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:22:39PM -0400, Avery Fay wrote: I just upgraded to the latest 2.6.8 kernel from an earlier one. I didn't change anything in the .config and now my machine no longer recognizes my scsi adapter, which is an aic7902. Reverting to and earlier kernel fixes the problem.

Bug#273191: no longer seems to support kernel command line variable values with spaces in their name

2004-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 03:40:18PM +0200, Joey Hess wrote: Package: kernel Version: 2.6.8 Severity: normal The 2.4 kernel supports parameters passed on the kernel command line of the form COUNTRY=United States; it understands the use of quotes around the value with a space in it, and sets

Bug#272983: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: TCP window scaling and broken router

2004-09-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 10:26:55AM +0200, Piotr Roszatycki wrote: Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686 Version: 2.6.8-3 Severity: important Kernel 2.6.8 sets TCP window scaling to 7. It doesn't work with many broken routers including mine. It is possible to set

Bug#269604: Problems with some firewalls

2004-09-20 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 02:55:50PM +0200, Magnus Ekdahl wrote: Subject: Problems with some firewalls Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 Version: 2.6.8-2 Severity: normal Somewhere after the 18th of august I got problems downloading my mail from pophost.ludd.luth.se. One of the administrators

Bug#272029: FATX filesystem support

2004-09-19 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 09:21:12AM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 08:38:56AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: tags 272029 +upstream thanks Please get feature-patches merged upstream before bugging us, thanks. Upstream rejected them untill they're a lot more

looking for testers tg3 backport

2004-09-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
I've backported the tg3 driver from current mainline which wasn't too easy because of our firmware removal and various interface changes in the mean time. I remember some people had problems with the IBM blades, care to test a kernel with the patch below? Testers with normal cards are also

Bug#272082: #272082 kernel: Kernel panic 2.6.8-2 after tc qdisc add ingress, 2.6.8-3 ok.

2004-09-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
close 272082 thanks Wonderfull, with a grave bug you _prevent_ -3 from going into testing. Closing the bug so it can be migrated.

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