[uml-devel] [PATCH 1/2] UML - Remove unneeded file

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff Dike
Remove arch/um/kernel/skas/process_kern.c again. The stack alignment change which resulted in this file being here is safely in arch/um/kernel/process.c. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/um/kernel/skas/process_kern.c | 483 - 1 file

[uml-devel] [PATCH 2/2] UML - Don't roll my own random MAC generator

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff Dike
Use the existing random_ether_addr() instead of cooking up my own version. Pointed out by Dave Hollis and Jason Lunz. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/um/drivers/net_kern.c |4 +--- arch/um/drivers/net_user.c | 29 -

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-28 Thread Mattia Dongili
Thanks Petter for writing, I was going to followup to the sysvinit bug :) I'm Cc-ing upstream too. On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: Hi I am one of the sysvinit maintainers. Recently we changed the mount options of /dev/shm/, and got a bug report about

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-28 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mattia Dongili] Well, I'd actually prefer if you could remove the noexec flag from /dev/shm. I understand the security reasons given in the bugreport but I'd prefer avoid having to deal with one more Debian-only (is it?) thing given the soon to come general freeze. I am considering this for

Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

2006-09-28 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 09:47:27PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:14:32PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: To make some writable tmpfs available to those in need of such system, and to avoid using /dev/shm/ which is reserved for the shm-functions, I just uploaded