Re: perfmon2 on fedora kernels

2008-07-31 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle wrote: Hi, My apologies if this is going to the wrong mailing list. Is there an easy way to enable support for perfmon2 in the fedora 9 kernel(s)? Looks like the patch for perfmon2 available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/perfmon2/ is only useful if patching a

Re: perfmon2 on fedora kernels

2008-07-31 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: We could put it in fedora but it's not upstream and nobody can say when or if it will go in. After the long drawn out pain that utrace has been, I'm somewhat reluctant. Especially for something that's providing additional

Re: perfmon2 on fedora kernels

2008-07-31 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:31:33PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 02:26:10PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: We could put it in fedora but it's not upstream and nobody can say when or if it will go in. After the long drawn out pain that utrace has been, I'm somewhat

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: adding --with firmware --without vdso_install build options

2008-07-31 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Steve Dickson wrote: Now that devel kernels rpms require the kernel-firmware rpm, it makes sense to me that one should be able to build both of them at the same time. So this patch adds the --with firmware build option which will allow kernel-firmware rpms to built with kernel rpms. This

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-07-31 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 11:37:10AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: So, here is what I propose: -- continue the current practice until 2.6.26 is released and the 2.6.27 merge window closes; -- after that, continue the current practice for updating rawhide; but, -- once F9 (and presumably