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

2005-04-05 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: Contaq

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

2005-04-05 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 which

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:15:00PM +0900, Horms wrote: 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

Bug#270376: PCMCIA Nic stops working after upgrading to 2.6.6/7/8

2005-04-05 Thread Jefferson Cowart
Sorry for the delay in sending this. I ended up getting back later than expected. In any case the hexdumps are below. Please let me know if you need anything else. Under 2.6.5-bk1 === (/proc/bus/pci/00/07.0) 000 104c ac17 0007 0210 0002 0607 a820 0082 010 8000 000c 00a0 0200

Bug#294203: Kernel Oops with capiinit, complete hang with capidrv module loading

2005-04-05 Thread Dirk Salva
I have the same problem here. And when I start the computer with capidrv in /etc/modules, it's hanging completely at running /etc/init.d/isdnutils. Only hard reset helps. ciao, Dirk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2005-04-05 Thread Horms
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:03:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:15:00PM +0900, Horms wrote: 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,

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:04:20PM +0900, Horms wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:03:01AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 03:15:00PM +0900, Horms wrote: 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

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the GPL, so why not say it explicitly ?

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

2005-04-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the GPL, so why not say it explicitly ? I don't think anyone here has disagreed. What almost everyone has

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

2005-04-05 Thread Kay Sievers
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:51 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: 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,

Bug#303177: kernel-source-2.6.8: DoS vulnerability in tmpfs

2005-04-05 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-16 Severity: important Tags: security Ubuntu reported a DoS in the tmpfs driver: | A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in the tmpfs driver, which | is commonly used to mount RAM disks below /dev/shm and /tmp. The | shm_nopage() did not properly

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

2005-04-05 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:32 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and that the firmware included in it is *NOT*

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people are just fed up of people bringing up the issue and then failing to do anything about it

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I think they will be accepted if they first introduce a transition period where tg3 will do request_firmware() and only use the built-in firmware if that fails. Fine with me. Second step is to make the built-in firmware a

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
Hello Jeff, ... If i can believe what i see in : http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/anno/drivers/net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|src/|src/drivers|src/drivers/net|related/drivers/net/tg3.c|[EMAIL PROTECTED] (which may or may not be correct and complete, since i am not really familiar with bk and

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

2005-04-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. I think that's what we should do. I currently don't have any firmware requiring

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

2005-04-05 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Jan, 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 people didn't like the

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:30:47AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ weren't going to do it, but if you

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 11:11 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: I don't think you did get a rejection, a few people said that _they_ weren't going to do it, but if you want to then go ahead. I think people are just fed up of people

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: Second step is to make the built-in firmware a config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver entirely. I think the

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Second step is to make the built-in firmware a config option and then later on when the infrastructure matures for firmware loading/providing firmware it can be removed from the driver entirely. I think the infrasturcture is quite mature. We have a lot of drivers that require it to

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

2005-04-05 Thread Andres Salomon
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:39:02 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:36:58AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: One of the options is to even ship the firmware in the kernel tarbal but from a separate directory with a clear license clarification text in it. I think that's

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Raul Miller wrote: 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

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

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:32:38AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:51 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Firmware loader is format-agnostic, I think having IHEX parser in a separate file would be better... Why should this be in-kernel at all? Convert the firmware into a

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

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:22:06AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: I agree with Dmitry on this point. The IHEX parser should not be inside firmware_class.c. What about using keyspan_ihex.[ch] for it? That's what I had originally, actually called firmware_ihex.ko, since the IHEX format parser is

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Theodore Ts'o wrote: You know, the fact that Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, and pretty much all other commercial distributions have not been worried about getting sued for this alleged GPL'ed violation makes it a lot harder for me (and others, I'm sure) take Debian's concerns seriously. I said in

Bug#303200: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686: kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/file.c:534!

2005-04-05 Thread Pau Capdevila
Subject: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686: kernel BUG at fs/reiserfs/file.c:534! Package: kernel-image-2.6.10-1-686 Version: 2.6.10-6 Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system *** Please type your report below this line *** When the following occurs: Apr 3 21:59:31 localhost kernel:

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

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:28:07AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: One of the sticking points will be how people get the firmware; I can see the point of a kernel-distributable-firmware project related to the kernel (say on kernel.org) which would provide a nice collection

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

2005-04-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
I agree. And that really doesn't need a lot of infrastructure, basically just a tarball that unpacks to /lib/firmware, maybe a specfile and debian/ dir in addition. At the moment there is -zero- infrastructure that would allow my tg3 to continue working, when I upgrade to a tg3

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

2005-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Humberto Massa wrote: But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the firmware blobs in the kernel (-- ok, *if* you consider that hex dumps are not source code). What Sven asked was: Hey, can I state

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:03:21AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: Theodore Ts'o wrote: You know, the fact that Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, and pretty much all other commercial distributions have not been worried about getting sued for this alleged GPL'ed violation makes it a lot harder for me

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:16:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Humberto Massa wrote: But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the firmware blobs in the kernel (-- ok, *if* you consider that hex

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

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 04 avril 2005 à 21:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit : 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

kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

2005-04-05 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i've read here http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...3/msg00412.html that the Debian team has decided to wipe out the Broadcom tg3 module from the 2.6.11 and following releases. I've a laptop which uses this card to connect to a LAN. Since i must work in a LAN the problem arises. Is there

kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

2005-04-05 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi, i've read here http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...3/msg00412.html that the Debian team has decided to wipe out the Broadcom tg3 module from the 2.6.11 and following releases. I've a laptop which uses this card to connect to a LAN. Since i must work in a LAN the problem arises. Is there

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Jeff Garzik wrote: We do not add comments to the kernel source code which simply state the obvious. Jeff Whoa, kind of harsh, isn't it? I'm just trying to help. Anyway, the problem at hand is: people do *not* think there is anything obvious. For instance: many, many people do not consider

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:03:21AM -0300, Humberto Massa wrote: Theodore Ts'o wrote: You know, the fact that Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, and pretty much all other commercial distributions have not been worried about getting sued for this alleged GPL'ed violation makes it a lot

Bug#272703: bug fixed in kernel 2.6.10

2005-04-05 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, this bug is fixed in kernel 2.6.10. Should I let this bug open as long as Debian provides a default kernel with this bug ? -- Laurent Bonnaud. http://www.lis.inpg.fr/pages_perso/bonnaud/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#266673: Bug still there in kernel 2.6.10

2005-04-05 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, here is an update: # modprobe i82365 FATAL: Error inserting i82365 (/lib/modules/2.6.10-1-686/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/i82365.ko): No such device $ dmesg [...] Device 'i823650' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in device_release at

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Sven Luther wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:23:29AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: This ofcourse doesn't actually solve Debian's distribution issues since the keyspan firmware can only be distributed as part of 'Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel'. Well, if this is the case, it

Bug#266674: Bug still there in kernel 2.6.10

2005-04-05 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, here is an update: # rmmod vesafb $ dmesg Device 'vesafb0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:85 [c01bba68] kobject_cleanup+0x98/0xa0 [c01bba70] kobject_release+0x0/0x10 [c01bc519] kref_put+0x39/0xa0

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:19:24AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:19 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: I am only saying that the tg3.c and other file are under the GPL, and that the firmware included in it is *NOT* intented to be under the GPL, so why not say it explicitly ?

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

2005-04-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 5, 2005 9:36 AM, Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People are also working on a replacement for the current request_firmware(), because the needs are changing. Try to keep it close with the usb-serial for now. Could you elaborate on what do you think is needed? I have some of

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

2005-04-05 Thread Jan Harkes
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:36:31PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: I agree with Dmitry on this point. The IHEX parser should not be inside firmware_class.c. What about using keyspan_ihex.[ch] for it? That's what I had originally, actually called firmware_ihex.ko, since the IHEX format

Re: kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 04:45:30PM +0200, Marco Calviani wrote: Hi, i've read here http://lists.debian.org/debian-kern...3/msg00412.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2005/03/msg00412.html that the Debian team has decided to wipe out the Broadcom tg3 module from the 2.6.11 and

Bug#234365: Bug unreproducible with kernel 2.6.10

2005-04-05 Thread Laurent Bonnaud
Hi, I cannot reproduce this bug with this Debian kernel: Linux video1 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Mar 11 01:49:45 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux However, since the bug in bugzilla.kernel.org has not been closed, I don't know if this IRQ problem is fixed or if it is just not triggered by the current

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

2005-04-05 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Dmitry, People are also working on a replacement for the current request_firmware(), because the needs are changing. Try to keep it close with the usb-serial for now. Could you elaborate on what do you think is needed? I have some of patches to firmware loader and wondering if we

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

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Humberto Massa wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary images of the kernel. Full stop.

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

2005-04-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 5, 2005 6:45 AM, Jan Harkes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:22:06AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: I agree with Dmitry on this point. The IHEX parser should not be inside firmware_class.c. What about using keyspan_ihex.[ch] for it? That's what I had originally,

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Humberto Massa wrote: Josselin Mouette wrote: You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary

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

2005-04-05 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Jan, I agree with Dmitry on this point. The IHEX parser should not be inside firmware_class.c. What about using keyspan_ihex.[ch] for it? That's what I had originally, actually called firmware_ihex.ko, since the IHEX format parser is not in any way keyspan specific and there

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

2005-04-05 Thread Horst von Brand
Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:16:48AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Humberto Massa wrote: But, the question made here was a subtler one and you are all biting around the bush: there *are* some misrepresentations of licenses to the firmware blobs in the

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

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2005 11:50 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a crit : You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to redistribute binary images of the kernel. Full

Processed: Re: creates initrd that cannot use lvm2 volumes if both lvm2 and lvm10 are installed

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 291386 unreproducible moreinfo Bug#291386: creates initrd that cannot use lvm 2 volumes if both lvm2 and lvm10 are installed There were no tags set. Tags added: unreproducible, moreinfo thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you

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

2005-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 avril 2005 ÿÿ 11:50 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a ÿÿcrit : You are mixing apples and oranges. The fact that the GFDL sucks has nothing to do with the firmware issue. With the current situation of firmwares in the kernel, it is illegal to

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

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2005 14:17 -0400, Richard B. Johnson a crit : You are completely missing the point. I don't care whether the firmwares should be free, or whether they could be free. The fact is they are not free, and Debian doesn't distribute non-free software in the main archive. The

kernel-image-2.6.11-i386_2.6.11-2_i386.changes ACCEPTED

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-386_2.6.11-2_i386.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.11-i386/kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-386_2.6.11-2_i386.deb kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-686-smp_2.6.11-2_i386.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.11-i386/kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-686-smp_2.6.11-2_i386.deb

kernel-image-2.6.10-sparc_2.6.10-6_sparc.changes ACCEPTED

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-build-2.6.10-1_2.6.10-6_sparc.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.10-sparc/kernel-build-2.6.10-1_2.6.10-6_sparc.deb kernel-headers-2.6.10-1-sparc32_2.6.10-6_sparc.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.10-sparc/kernel-headers-2.6.10-1-sparc32_2.6.10-6_sparc.deb

kernel-image-2.6.11-s390_2.6.11-1_s390.changes ACCEPTED

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-s390_2.6.11-1_s390.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.11-s390/kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-s390_2.6.11-1_s390.deb kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-s390x_2.6.11-1_s390.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-image-2.6.11-s390/kernel-headers-2.6.11-1-s390x_2.6.11-1_s390.deb

kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.11_2.6.11-1_powerpc.changes ACCEPTED

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Installer
Accepted: kernel-build-2.6.11-power3-smp_2.6.11-1_powerpc.deb to pool/main/k/kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.11/kernel-build-2.6.11-power3-smp_2.6.11-1_powerpc.deb kernel-build-2.6.11-power3_2.6.11-1_powerpc.deb to

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

2005-04-05 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mardi 05 avril 2005 12:50 -0600, Chris Friesen a crit : Josselin Mouette wrote: The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many people disagree with that assertion now. This is only true if the result is

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

2005-04-05 Thread Humberto Massa
Josselin Mouette wrote: It merely depends on the definition of aggregation. I'd say that two works that are only aggregated can be easily distinguished and separated. This is not the case for a binary kernel module, from which you cannot easily extract the firmware and code parts. Not really...

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

2005-04-05 Thread Chris Friesen
Josselin Mouette wrote: The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many people disagree with that assertion now. This is only true if the result is considered a derivative work of the gpl'd code. The GPL states In addition,

Bug#303281: mkinitrd should be updated for libc6 2.3.4 whose ldd changed output format

2005-04-05 Thread George Cristian Birzan
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.77 Severity: grave Tags: experimental patch It's not exactly a patch, just the regular expression I've found to work with libc6 2.3.4: sed -n 's/.*\(=\)\?[[:blank:]]\+\(\/[^[:blank:]]*\).*/\2/p' See bug #301455

Bug#303281: mkinitrd should be updated for libc6 2.3.4 whose ldd changed output format

2005-04-05 Thread Harald Dunkel
George Cristian Birzan wrote: Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.77 Severity: grave Tags: experimental patch It's not exactly a patch, just the regular expression I've found to work with libc6 2.3.4: sed -n 's/.*\(=\)\?[[:blank:]]\+\(\/[^[:blank:]]*\).*/\2/p' Something like '[:blank:]'

Bug#303294: CAN-2005-0400: ext2 mkdir() leaks kernel data

2005-04-05 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 Severity: important Tags: security CAN-2005-0400 reports that an information leak occurs in the ext2 mkdir(): See http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED] for a description and a patch. Cheers, Moritz -- System

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

2005-04-05 Thread Don Armstrong
[MFT set to -legal, as this is becoming legal arcana probably not particularly interesting to any other list.] On Tue, 05 Apr 2005, Sven Luther wrote: There are two solutions to this issue, either you abide by the GPL and provide also the source code of those firmware binaries (the prefered

Bug#303311: ALSA support for ali5451 broken in 2.6.11?

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel Burrows
Package: kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 Version: 2.6.11-2 Severity: normal My sound card worked fine in 2.6.10, but I don't get any sound output in 2.6.11. The driver is loaded and appears in /proc: jester:~ lsmod|grep snd snd_usb_audio 67392 0 snd_usb_lib13088 1

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

2005-04-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:56:09PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le mardi 05 avril 2005 à 12:50 -0600, Chris Friesen a écrit : Josselin Mouette wrote: The fact is also that mixing them with a GPLed software gives an result you can't redistribute - although it seems many people

Bug#234365: Bug unreproducible with kernel 2.6.10

2005-04-05 Thread Horms
reassign 234365 kernel-source-2.6.8 thanks On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:32:39PM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: Hi, I cannot reproduce this bug with this Debian kernel: Linux video1 2.6.10-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Mar 11 01:49:45 EST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux However, since the bug in

Bug#303177: kernel-source-2.6.8: DoS vulnerability in tmpfs

2005-04-05 Thread Horms
tag 303177 +pending thanks On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:03:23AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 Version: 2.6.8-16 Severity: important Tags: security Ubuntu reported a DoS in the tmpfs driver: | A Denial of Service vulnerability was found in the tmpfs driver,

Processed: Re: Bug#303294: CAN-2005-0400: ext2 mkdir() leaks kernel data

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tags 303294 +pending Bug#303294: CAN-2005-0400: ext2 mkdir() leaks kernel data Tags were: security Tags added: pending thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. Debian bug tracking system administrator

Processed: missing cc

2005-04-05 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: tag 303177 +pending Bug#303177: kernel-source-2.6.8: DoS vulnerability in tmpfs Tags were: security Tags added: pending tag 302704 +pending Bug#302704: CAN-2005-0750: Possible local root exploit through insufficient range checking in af_bluetooth