Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:45:40AM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:22:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > > I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I > > > rev'd it from -2 (currently in

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-25 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:22:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I > > rev'd it from -2 (currently in sarge) to -3 to turn off PREEMPT > > (prevents at least one user trigg

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Schulze
Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > > > I've also been told that many module packages aren't built the Debian > > way with a .dsc file that can be used as basis for dpkg-buildpackage > > or similar. This makes the problem more difficult. > >

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 08:04:30AM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: > I've also been told that many module packages aren't built the Debian > way with a .dsc file that can be used as basis for dpkg-buildpackage > or similar. This makes the problem more difficult. The kernel module packages we know o

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-24 Thread Martin Schulze
dann frazier wrote: > It seems to me that the best use of everyone's time would be for the > kernel team to have an agreement with the security team that we will > restrict changes to our 2.4.27/2.6.8 kernels in such a way that they can > start with our unstable packages for sarge updates (with may

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-24 Thread dann frazier
On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 19:37 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:22:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > > I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I > > rev'd it from -2 (currently in sarge) to -3 to turn off PREEMPT > > (prevents at least one user trigg

Re: kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 06:22:32PM -0700, dann frazier wrote: > I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I > rev'd it from -2 (currently in sarge) to -3 to turn off PREEMPT > (prevents at least one user triggerable oops). This seemed convenient, > since the k-s-2.6.8-14 h

kernel-image-2.6.8-ia64 ABI reversion

2005-03-24 Thread dann frazier
I'm trying to decide what I want to do about the ia64 kernel ABI. I rev'd it from -2 (currently in sarge) to -3 to turn off PREEMPT (prevents at least one user triggerable oops). This seemed convenient, since the k-s-2.6.8-14 had its own ABI change. Well, turns out this was a bad idea - we've de