Re: Longing for git-bisect

2007-03-29 Thread Jeffrey C. Ollie
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:32 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:52:02 -0400, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Zaitcev had something that tracked the Fedora tree, but I never > > found time to look at what he did. > > You mean this? > http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=kern

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Jarod Wilson wrote: The minimalist approach that comes to mind is to make all the %define build* bits all set to 1/enabled by default, and only flip them to disabled where appropriate, so they'd be equivalent to your allow* idea, in that if you disable them at the top of t

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:24:44PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: > > I'd love to have a tool which would slurp bugdata out of our bz and > > allow me to edit it if necessary, and then push a submit upstream button. > > dkl is long on notice of how snazzy this would be, for sourceware bugzilla,

Re: rpms for vanilla kernel builds ...

2007-03-29 Thread Clinton Lee Taylor
On 29/03/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Clinton Lee Taylor wrote: > Greetings ... > > I for one would like to vote for rpms of vanilla kernel build! > > I have an Adaptec ASR-3410S, which is an i2o device, but since > 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6, I can't use it and the i2o maintaner suggests

Re: rpms for vanilla kernel builds ...

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Clinton Lee Taylor wrote: > Greetings ... > > I for one would like to vote for rpms of vanilla kernel build! > > I have an Adaptec ASR-3410S, which is an i2o device, but since > 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6, I can't use it and the i2o maintaner suggests I try a > vanilla kernel build to see if it's an FC ke

rpms for vanilla kernel builds ...

2007-03-29 Thread Clinton Lee Taylor
Greetings ... I for one would like to vote for rpms of vanilla kernel build! I have an Adaptec ASR-3410S, which is an i2o device, but since 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6, I can't use it and the i2o maintaner suggests I try a vanilla kernel build to see if it's an FC kernel problem or a general problem, but

Re: Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

2007-03-29 Thread Jon Masters
Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 16:16 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the firmware goes i

Re: Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

2007-03-29 Thread Jon Masters
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the firmware goes in the kernel package? I personally prefer for it to

Re: Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

2007-03-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 16:16 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, > so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the > kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the > firmware goes in the kernel

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Roland McGrath
> I'd love to have a tool which would slurp bugdata out of our bz and > allow me to edit it if necessary, and then push a submit upstream button. dkl is long on notice of how snazzy this would be, for sourceware bugzilla, gnome bugzilla, etc, etc. It was always "after bugzilla infrastructure upgr

Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the firmware goes in the kernel package? Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to loa

turn CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_ENABLE_SECMARK_DEFAULT on

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Paris
So after a little discussion with the SELinux folks it looks like we want to turn this option on in FC7 as well. This should not be changed for old fedora releases. This option will enable secmark by default instead of the legacy network hooks for selinux. It should reduce the selinux overhead o

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Jarod Wilson wrote: > > The minimalist approach that comes to mind is to make all the %define > build* bits all set to 1/enabled by default, and only flip them to > disabled where appropriate, so they'd be equivalent to your allow* idea, > in that if you disable them at the top of the spec, they'd

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Jarod Wilson wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> Jarod Wilson wrote: >>> Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > I was thinking about adding someth

Re: Enable SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Paris
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:35 -0400, James Morris wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Eric Paris wrote: > > > Right before FC6 we turned off CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM since there > > was a lot of development still going on in that areas especially > > concerning secid reconciliation between that and se

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Chuck Ebbert wrote: > Jarod Wilson wrote: >> Dave Jones wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >>> > Dave Jones wrote: >>> > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >>> > > > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec f

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Jarod Wilson wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> > Dave Jones wrote: >> > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: >> > > > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file >> > > > at the begin

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file > > > > at the beginning: > > > > > > > >

Re: Longing for git-bisect

2007-03-29 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:52:02 -0400, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Zaitcev had something that tracked the Fedora tree, but I never > found time to look at what he did. You mean this? http://git.fedoraproject.org/?p=kernel/zaitcev/linux-2.6-volk.git;a=summary I still have it, but the aut

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 20:36 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:50:55PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > > And maybe also a common bugzilla? > > > > http://bugme.osdl.org :-) > > > > Would it be an idea to automaticly (cron job, whatever) forward k

Re: Chance of dynamic loading of alternate AML code getting in?

2007-03-29 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
Dave Jones schrieb: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi all, > > AFAIK ubuntu includes a patch to allow dynamic loading of alternate AML code > dumps, to work around bios ACPI bugs. I know BIOS's and the kernel ACPI code > are getting betterm but for some

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 08:36:47PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:50:55PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > > > And maybe also a common bugzilla? > > > > http://bugme.osdl.org :-) > > > > Would it be an idea to automaticly (cron job, wha

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:50:55PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > And maybe also a common bugzilla? http://bugme.osdl.org :-) Would it be an idea to automaticly (cron job, whatever) forward kernel bugs there and to add tracking of the upstream bug to the Fedora bug? I kn

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file > > > at the beginning: > > > > > > %define allowup 1 > > > %defin

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 13:46 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > > Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> +++ kernel-2.6.spec

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file > > at the beginning: > > > > %define allowup 1 > > %define allowsmp 1 > > %define allowpae 1 > > %define allowxen 1 > > %define allowdoc

Re: Enable SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM

2007-03-29 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Eric Paris wrote: > Right before FC6 we turned off CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM since there > was a lot of development still going on in that areas especially > concerning secid reconciliation between that and secmark. The > reconciliation work was killed upstream and XFRM la

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file > at the beginning: > > %define allowup 1 > %define allowsmp 1 > %define allowpae 1 > %define allowxen 1 > %define allowdoc 1 > %define allowdump 1 > %define

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Dave Jones wrote: > > The actual patches we carry are rarely the cause the problems that get > reported. > It's fairly uncommon for us to change drivers other than perhaps the > occasional compile fix which usually goes upstream quickly. Yet that's > by far where most of the bugs that get report

Re: Chance of dynamic loading of alternate AML code getting in?

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:53:00PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi all, > > AFAIK ubuntu includes a patch to allow dynamic loading of alternate AML code > dumps, to work around bios ACPI bugs. I know BIOS's and the kernel ACPI code > are getting betterm but for some laptops this is needed,

Re: Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 07:50:55PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi all, > > Reading the thread about adding support to the kernel spec file to build a > vanilla kernel, I had this crazy (really crazy) idea: > > Wouldn't it be great to share one kernel package or atleast one kernel > sou

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Jon Masters
Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.0 -0400 > >> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ > >> > >>

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:37:13PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.0 -0400 > >> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ > >> > >> # unpack

Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file at the beginning: %define allowup 1 %define allowsmp 1 %define allowpae 1 %define allowxen 1 %define allowdoc 1 %define allowdump 1 %define allowheaders 1 %define allowdebug 1 Then, after all the automatic enable/disable of various

Chance of dynamic loading of alternate AML code getting in?

2007-03-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi all, AFAIK ubuntu includes a patch to allow dynamic loading of alternate AML code dumps, to work around bios ACPI bugs. I know BIOS's and the kernel ACPI code are getting betterm but for some laptops this is needed, any chance this could be included into the Fedora kernel? Also any chance

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Jon Masters
Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.0 -0400 @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ # unpack sparse. if [ ! -d sparse-%{sparsever} ] ; then -%setup -T -D -a 3 -q +%setup -D -T -q -a3 fi This

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Jarod Wilson
Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.0 -0400 >> @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ >> >> # unpack sparse. >> if [ ! -d sparse-%{sparsever} ] ; then >> -%setup -T -D -a 3 -q >> +%setup -D -T

Crazy idea

2007-03-29 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi all, Reading the thread about adding support to the kernel spec file to build a vanilla kernel, I had this crazy (really crazy) idea: Wouldn't it be great to share one kernel package or atleast one kernel source (as in pristine source + patches) between different distro's? The kernel is

Re: [Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:29:21 -0400, Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +++ kernel-2.6.spec 2007-03-29 06:04:16.0 -0400 > @@ -1219,7 +1219,7 @@ > > # unpack sparse. > if [ ! -d sparse-%{sparsever} ] ; then > -%setup -T -D -a 3 -q > +%setup -D -T -q -a3 > fi This looks nice

Re: Enable SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Eric Paris wrote: > Right before FC6 we turned off CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM since there > was a lot of development still going on in that areas especially > concerning secid reconciliation between that and secmark. The > reconciliation work was killed upstream and XFRM labeling has been > work

Re: Enable SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Paris
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:21 -0400, Eric Paris wrote: > Right before FC6 we turned off CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM since there > was a lot of development still going on in that areas especially > concerning secid reconciliation between that and secmark. The > reconciliation work was killed upstrea

Enable SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM

2007-03-29 Thread Eric Paris
Right before FC6 we turned off CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM since there was a lot of development still going on in that areas especially concerning secid reconciliation between that and secmark. The reconciliation work was killed upstream and XFRM labeling has been worked on upstream and has been

[Fedora PATCH]: BZ 234473 Remove sparse directory listing from kernel rpmbuild

2007-03-29 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Currently, rpmbuild -bp kernel-2.6.spec does /usr/bin/bzip2 -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/sparse-0.2.tar.bz2 tar -xvvf - which displays the directory of what has been untarred: drwxrwxrwx git/git 0 2006-12-05 06:22:44 sparse-0.2/ (snip 123 lines) I'm not sure if the full directory listi

[OT] please review new kernel build doc on fedora wiki

2007-03-29 Thread Sam Folk-Williams
Hi, I (with DaveJ) help maintain the kernel release notes for Fedora. A user suggested a while back that we remove the building instructions from the release notes and put those in a separate doc devoted to more detailed instructions on building the kernel RPM (including applying patches and conf

kernel build hacks for vanilla builds

2007-03-29 Thread Roland McGrath
This is enough for "make vanilla-scratch-build" to work (or vanilla-i686, vanilla-compile, etc). It might even be enough for "make vanilla-tag vanilla-build", but I'd have to check it in to test that kludge. Attached below is my linux-2.6.17-nonintconfig.patch, my old replacement for linux-2.6-bu