Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-24 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:26:49 AM dng-requ...@lists.dyne.org wrote: > Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?) > From: Isaac Dunham > To: Hendrik Boom > CC: dng@lists.dyne.org > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:40:06AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-24 Thread Gravis
oh good. glad to read that our linux kernel friends are more sane than our distro friends. --Gravis On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:47 AM, Isaac Dunham wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:40:06AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26:01AM -0500, Gravis wrote: > > > > Kernel l

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-24 Thread Adam Borowski
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 05:47:04AM +, Isaac Dunham wrote: > > > > Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! > > Erm...I'm reading that kdbus was *not* merged. > > FWIW, kdbus was specifically mentioned when Linus blacklisted Kay Sievers. > V3 seems to have gotten a lot o

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-23 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 11:40:06AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26:01AM -0500, Gravis wrote: > > > Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! > > > > i'm weary of KDBUS but live patching is something i consider too dangerous. > > --Gravis > > But wh

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:15:14PM -0500, Peter Olson wrote: > > On February 16, 2015 at 8:25 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:34:57PM -0500, Peter Olson wrote: > > > > “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” > > > ― Edmund Burke > > > > > > Peter Olson >

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Olson
> On February 16, 2015 at 8:25 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:34:57PM -0500, Peter Olson wrote: > > “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.” > > ― Edmund Burke > > > > Peter Olson > I think the original quote was by Santayana: > > George Santayana. Those w

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:34:57PM -0500, Peter Olson wrote: > > On February 15, 2015 at 2:39 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:50:53PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: > > > IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI. > [stuff omitted] > > No one pus

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-16 Thread Peter Olson
> On February 15, 2015 at 2:39 PM Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:50:53PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: > > IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI. [stuff omitted] > No one pushing this seems to be really concerned with the security, or > the safety

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 03:31:02AM +0200, Martijn Dekkers wrote: > > > > The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well > > debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago? > > > > > You overestimate the amount of debugging that goes into in-car software. I >

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> What exactly does IPC have to do with patching? the patching is done via IPC. --Gravis On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Vlad <2389...@gmail.com> wrote: > What exactly does IPC have to do with patching? > > On Feb 15, 2015 5:22 PM, "Jaromil" wrote: >> >> >> hi >> >> On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, jo...@

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Vlad
What exactly does IPC have to do with patching? On Feb 15, 2015 5:22 PM, "Jaromil" wrote: > > hi > > On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, jo...@trash-mail.com wrote: > > >As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next > >Linux release 4.0 instead of 3.20. Many people have been wondering

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Martijn Dekkers
> > The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well > debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago? > > You overestimate the amount of debugging that goes into in-car software. I once had an Alfa Romeo with a buggy implementation for it's tiptronic gearbox.

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> No one pushing this seems to be really concerned with the security, or > the safety of the user interfaces. there are a few ways this could change. - a single senator/congressman has their ride hacked/bricked - several people die in fiery car wrecks from bad code or a virus - a self-propagating

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:50:53PM -0500, Jude Nelson wrote: > IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI. The thing that scares me because I suspect it's just not as well debugged as the software that used to run a car only a few years ago? Well, what scares me it

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Jude Nelson
IVI == "In-Vehicle Infotainment." The stuff that runs your new car's UI. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Gravis wrote: > Jude, > > i'm glad at least one of us is following the kdbus conversation. > advanced authentication is exactly what i wanted added to unix domain > sockets, so kdbus sound

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
Jude, i'm glad at least one of us is following the kdbus conversation. advanced authentication is exactly what i wanted added to unix domain sockets, so kdbus sounds nice as long as it works as advertised. as a POSIX enthusiast, i wish they had merely extended unix domain sockets so that it could

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Peter Maloney
On 02/15/2015 05:40 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26:01AM -0500, Gravis wrote: >>> Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! That would make it a circular dependency... and circular dependencies always kill themselves. :) Also, it (hopefully) won't depe

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Jude Nelson
I think we're significantly overblowing the impact of kdbus. I've been following the development of kdbus, and kdbus alone is just another way to send bytes from one process to others. In a nutshell, it creates a namespace of special character files that have some interesting properties. Namely,

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:26:01AM -0500, Gravis wrote: > > Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! > > i'm weary of KDBUS but live patching is something i consider too dangerous. > --Gravis But why would it have to depend on systemd? -- hendrik _

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Gravis
> Kernel live patching makes KDBUS and systemD support mandatory! i'm weary of KDBUS but live patching is something i consider too dangerous. --Gravis On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:09 AM, wrote: > As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next Linux > release 4.0 instead of 3.20.

Re: [Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread Jaromil
hi On Sun, 15 Feb 2015, jo...@trash-mail.com wrote: >As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next >Linux release 4.0 instead of 3.20. Many people have been wondering >why, but yea read that back a year ago. makes sense. >there is one quite radical feature hid

[Dng] Important changes in Linux 3.20 (4.0?)

2015-02-15 Thread joerg
As you may have read, Linus Torvalds considers to call the next Linux release 4.0 instead of 3.20. Many people have been wondering why, but there is one quite radical feature hidden in the new version.- OverlayFS now supports multiple read-only layers.- Many Intel DRM graphics driver improvement