Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-04 Thread Horms
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:41:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > It seems as the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels which are sarge release candidates > are now frozen, and will be part of sarge as is, complete with all the bugs > and problems present in them, and maybe even some security issues wh

Bug#301486: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-generic: Aiee, killing interrupt

2005-04-04 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Florian wrote: > Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > Hmm... what's the output of 'lspci' on your system? > > Here it is: > > :00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip > 21142/43 (rev 30) > :00:07.0 ISA bridge: Contaq Microsystems 82c693 > :00:07.1 IDE interface

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:23:29AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 04 April 2005 23:23, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-leg

[PATCH 03/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
Simple program to convert the keyspan firmware header files to IHEX formatted files that can be loaded with hotplug. This is really only needed once to convert the existing keyspan firmware headers, which is what the next patch will do. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linu

[PATCH 02/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
Convert the keyspan USB serial driver to use request_firmware and firmware_load_ihex. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c === --- linux.orig/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c 2005-0

[PATCH 01/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
Adding firmware_load_ihex, to load IHEX formatted firmware images. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 151 ++ include/linux/firmware.h | 26 +++ 2 files changed, 177 insertions(+) Index: linux/inclu

[PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > > > Can you summarize the con

Bug#302705: CAN-2005-0749: Potential DOS in elf_load_library()

2005-04-04 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Horms wrote: > Do you know if it has a CAN number assigned, I have been unable to find one? It's CAN-2005-0749. Cheers, Moritz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#303140: CAN-2005-0937: DoS in futex handling

2005-04-04 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: important Tags: security Hi, CAN-2005-0937 describes the following Denial-of-Service vulnerability: Some futex functions in futex.c for Linux kernel 2.6.x perform get_user calls while holding the mmap_sem semaphore, which could allow local

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Garrett
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (-project added to the Cc:, non-debian related lists removed) > No documentation for the C compiler (not even a documentation of the > options) will be neither fun for the users of Debian nor for the Debian > maintainers - but it's the future of Debian...

Bug#303137: Kernel-source-2.6.11: compiled kernel trashes

2005-04-04 Thread Pieter Bolle
Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Version: 2.6.11-2 During a half hour, my system became completely irresponsive. As far as I understand the messages in /var/log/kern.log, the kernel ran out of memory. In that time, I wasn't able to close any program, nor log in on a textconsole. There continously was

kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11_2.6.11-1_i386.changes REJECTED

2005-04-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
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Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:24:05PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > It assuredly can't hurt to add a few lines of comments to tg3.c, and since it > is probably (well, 1/3 chance here) you who added said firmware to the tg3.c > file, i guess you are even well placed to at least exclude it from being > GP

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:47:36PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >Yep, but in the meantime, let's clearly mark said firmware as > >not-covered-by-the-GPL. In the acenic case it seems to be even easier, as > >the > >firmware is in a separate acenic_firmware.h file, and it just ne

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:23:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +020

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:55:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so > > that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is > > not

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 11:05:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:23:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Nope, i am aiming to clarify this issue with regard to the debian kernel, so > that we may be clear with ourselves, and actually ship something which is not > of dubious legal standing, and that we could get sued over for GPL violati

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Sven Luther wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:55:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legi

Bug#301799: kernel-tree-2.6.11: new upstream source available: 2.6.11.6

2005-04-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0900, Horms wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:08:18AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:55:27AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Horms wrot

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Raul Miller
> On Apr 04, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > is waiting for NEW processing, but i also believe that the dubious > > copyright assignement will not allow the ftp-masters to let it pass > > into the archive, since it *IS* a GPL violation, and thus i am doing > > this in order to solve that

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:55:55PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > >>Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > >>problem, or the ones discussing it. > > > > > >Actually, there are so

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:30PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion abou

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Ian> I think what Greg may have meant[0] was that if it bothers Ian> you, then you should act by contacting the copyright holders Ian> privately yourself in each case that you come across and Ian> asking them if you may add a little comment etc, and then Ian> submit patches once

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:29:45PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.or

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in the Linux source base. Last time this

Bug#301486: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-generic: Aiee, killing interrupt

2005-04-04 Thread Florian
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Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > like they did with tg3 and others.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 04, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > > like they did with tg3 and others. > Nope, they were simply moved to non-free, as it should

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > like they did with tg3 and others.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > Can you summarize the conclusion of the thread, or what you did get from it, > please ? That

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:05:18PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution > Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, > like they did with tg3 and others.

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > > > Can you summarize the con

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:12:48PM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:21 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > > > problem, or the ones discussing it.

Bug#302705: CAN-2005-0749: Potential DOS in elf_load_library()

2005-04-04 Thread Joey Hess
Horms wrote: > Thanks, this fix is in SVN. > > Do you know if it has a CAN number assigned, I have been unable to find one? If you've not guessed already, it's CAN-2005-0749 ;-) -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 20:21 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > > problem, or the ones discussing it. [...] > All i am asking is that *the copyright holders* of said fir

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Apr 04, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if we don't want to do so? I know I personally posted a solution Then probably the extremists in Debian will manage to kill your driver, like they did with tg3 and others. This sucks, yes. -- ciao, Marco (@debian.org) signature.asc Descript

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > Then let's see some acts. We (lkml) are not the ones with the percieved > problem, or the ones discussing it. Actually, there are some legitimate problems with some of the files in the Linux source base. Last time this came up, the Aceni

kernel-latest-2.4-s390_2.4.27-1_s390.changes ACCEPTED

2005-04-04 Thread Debian Installer
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Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML > > audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere > > technicality to get o

kernel-latest-2.4-s390_2.4.27-1_s390.changes is NEW

2005-04-04 Thread Debian Installer
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Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:51:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML > > audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere > > technicality to get o

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Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 04:16:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > This is just the followup on said discussion, involving the larger LKML > audience, in order to get this fixed for good. As said, it is just a mere > technicality to get out of the muddy situation, all the people having > contributed so

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2005-04-04 Thread Debian Installer
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Bug#301799: kernel-tree-2.6.11: new upstream source available: 2.6.11.6

2005-04-04 Thread Horms
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:41:33PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:08:18AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:55:27AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Horms wrote: > > > > > It is much more user-friendly, and it readly provi

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:26:58AM -0400, Michael Poole wrote: > Sven Luther writes: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Current linux kernel source hold undistributable non-free firmware blobs, > > and > > to consider them as mere agregation, a clear licence statement from the > > copyright holders of sai

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Michael Poole
Sven Luther writes: > Hello, > > > Current linux kernel source hold undistributable non-free firmware blobs, and > to consider them as mere agregation, a clear licence statement from the > copyright holders of said non-free firmware blobls is needed, read below for > details. > > > Please keep e

Bug#301799: kernel-tree-2.6.11: new upstream source available: 2.6.11.6

2005-04-04 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005, Sven Luther wrote: > No, the packages would still be kernel-*-2.6.11, but the version number would > be 2.6.11.6-, yiedling stuff like : > > kernel-source-2.6.11_2.6.11.6-1_all.deb > > Which is ok, and doesn't trigger NEW. I vote for that. Which is what I thought would ha

Bug#301799: kernel-tree-2.6.11: new upstream source available: 2.6.11.6

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:08:18AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:55:27AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Horms wrote: > > > > It is much more user-friendly, and it readly provides information on the > > > > most up-to-date tree it was synced wit

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
Dropping debian-boot, as i don't think further discussion concerns them. On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:58:05AM +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > Plans on my part for 2.6 powerpc kernels are : > > > > 1) abandonement of the ppc32 power3 and power4 kernels in favour of ppc64 > > variants. > > Fi

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 09:58 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > As I said above, some embedded CPU really need different mm handling. > BookE is an abomination, and fun with the 64 bit BookE implemetations > if they come one day: they use different instruction encoding than > standard PPC64. I think

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non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
Hello, Current linux kernel source hold undistributable non-free firmware blobs, and to consider them as mere agregation, a clear licence statement from the copyright holders of said non-free firmware blobls is needed, read below for details. Please keep everyone in the CC, as not everyone read

Re: sarge kernel frozen (2.4.27 and 2.6.8), and plans for post-sarge powerpc kernels.

2005-04-04 Thread Gabriel Paubert
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:41:58AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > Hello, > > It seems as the 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 kernels which are sarge release candidates > are now frozen, and will be part of sarge as is, complete with all the bugs > and problems present in them, and maybe even some security issues wh

kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11_2.6.11-1_i386.changes is NEW

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Processing of kernel-source-nonfree-2.6.11_2.6.11-1_i386.changes

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