Re: [PATCH] Removal of duplicate options in debian/arch/config

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:14:50AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:09:11 +1030 Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As requested by fs on #debian-kernel, here is the first post in an effort to identify and remove

Re: [PATCH] Removal of duplicate options in debian/arch/config

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:14:50AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:09:11 +1030 Rod Whitby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As requested by fs on #debian-kernel, here is the first post in an effort to identify and remove

Re: Bug#344754: fails to load ide-disk, doesn't find hdd

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 02:48:49AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, Joey Hess wrote: I also see this bug, using initramfs-tools 0.44 and linux-image-2.6.14-2-386 (2.6.14-6). could you try the attached hook file, please place it under

Processed: downgrade

2005-12-29 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unmerge #337497 Bug#337497: initramfs-tools: [powerpc] doesn't work on pegasos - ALERT! /dev/hda1 does Bug#332824: linux-image-2.6.13-1-686: Cannot find LVM root fs Bug#342925: initramfs-tools: [sparc64] generated initrd fails to boot Disconnected

Bug#345129: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 and ALI5451 module

2005-12-29 Thread Laurent Neiger
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 Version: 2.6.14-6 Hello, Since I upgraded from linux-image-2.6.12 to linux-image-2.6.14 my ali5451 soundcard is no more able of playing any sound... I've tried all the successives revisions of 2.6.14 but it really seems it's since the change 2.6.12/2.6.14

more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, at the time where sarge was released, the question was raised multiple times whether we can put newer kernels into volatile. As it is now about halfways between release of sarge and release of etch, it is time to reconsider whether to put an newer kernel into volatile or not. Reasons to add

Bug#345129: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 and ALI5451 module

2005-12-29 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Laurent Neiger wrote: Hello, Since I upgraded from linux-image-2.6.12 to linux-image-2.6.14 my ali5451 soundcard is no more able of playing any sound... I've tried all the successives revisions of 2.6.14 but it really seems it's since the change 2.6.12/2.6.14 that

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:06:47AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, at the time where sarge was released, the question was raised multiple times whether we can put newer kernels into volatile. As it is now about halfways between release of sarge and release of etch, it is time to reconsider

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 11:47]: The main problem are the too strict rules for building in volatile, which stop us from uploading the etch/sid kernels and associated packages to it. Actually, I think we should first consider which kernel minor version we want to use

Bug#345129: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 and ALI5451 module

2005-12-29 Thread Laurent Neiger
Dear Maximilian, first of all many thanks for your so quick answer. Unfortunately, upgrading to 2.6.15 didn't solve my problem. Messages in /var/log/dmesg (or boot or syslog) are just the same, there is an error while loading the ali5451 module. But as at last it achieve to be loaded, alsa,

Re: ARCH=powerpc 64bit 2.6.15-rc7 build error : ld: drivers/built-in.o section .init.text exceeds stub group size

2005-12-29 Thread Alan Modra
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:58:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I never saw those before, so i wonder if this are harmless messages coming They are harmless. I made ld a little too paranoid on 2005-09-19, and cured the paranoia on 2005-11-18. If you update to current binutils the warnings should

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:15:53PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 11:47]: The main problem are the too strict rules for building in volatile, which stop us from uploading the etch/sid kernels and associated packages to it. Actually, I think

Re: ARCH=powerpc 64bit 2.6.15-rc7 build error : ld: drivers/built-in.o section .init.text exceeds stub group size

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:08:05PM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:58:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: I never saw those before, so i wonder if this are harmless messages coming They are harmless. I made ld a little too paranoid on 2005-09-19, and cured the paranoia on

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:11:40PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 13:05]: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 12:15:53PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 11:47]: The main problem are the too strict rules for building in

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:04, Sven Luther wrote: To add to that the fact that with a minimal rebuild of support tools (yaird and backported udev for me), the etch/sid/experimental kernels install just fine on a sarge system. I run all my sarge systems like this, and it works just fine.

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 13:12]: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 13:05]: - Any security issues that happen need to be resolved - so we should limit the number of versions we offer. Indeed, so the best is to have it be identic to either the etch or the

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 13:29]: [...] I think the whole issue of introducing a new kernel in Sarge is being hopelessly underestimated here. I fully agree with Frans. It's a non-trivial task, and if we really go this way (and there are good reasons to go this way), it'll be a

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Sven Luther wrote: Obviously, from a kernel maintainer perpespective, the one that makes more sense is the latest one we are working on, which will always be the more actively maintained one and as a consequence the one of more interest to the users, not to mention the fact that for the users

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Also, using 2.6.12/14/15 in Sarge (volatile) IMO means that the kernel team will need to commit to maintaining that version with regard to security updates, just as for 2.6.8. Continuously making the latest kernel available for Sarge through volatile IMO is not an option,

Bug#345129: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 and ALI5451 module

2005-12-29 Thread maximilian attems
cher Laurent! On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Laurent Neiger wrote: first of all many thanks for your so quick answer. :) Unfortunately, upgrading to 2.6.15 didn't solve my problem. Messages in /var/log/dmesg (or boot or syslog) are just the same, there is an error while loading the ali5451 module.

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:31:08PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: Hi, * Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 13:12]: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 13:05]: - Any security issues that happen need to be resolved - so we should limit the number of versions we offer.

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 01:29:13PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 13:04, Sven Luther wrote: To add to that the fact that with a minimal rebuild of support tools (yaird and backported udev for me), the etch/sid/experimental kernels install just fine on a sarge system. I

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 07:56:18AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Sven Luther wrote: Obviously, from a kernel maintainer perpespective, the one that makes more sense is the latest one we are working on, which will always be the more actively maintained one and as a consequence the one of more

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 14:03]: Frans Pop wrote: Also, using 2.6.12/14/15 in Sarge (volatile) IMO means that the kernel team will need to commit to maintaining that version with regard to security updates, just as for 2.6.8. Continuously making the latest kernel

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 08:01:34AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Also, using 2.6.12/14/15 in Sarge (volatile) IMO means that the kernel team will need to commit to maintaining that version with regard to security updates, just as for 2.6.8. Continuously making the latest

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread maximilian attems
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 11:47]: The main problem are the too strict rules for building in volatile, which stop us from uploading the etch/sid kernels and associated packages to it. Actually, I think we should first consider

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:02:28PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Andreas Barth wrote: * Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051229 11:47]: The main problem are the too strict rules for building in volatile, which stop us from uploading the etch/sid kernels and

Processing of initramfs-tools_0.46_i386.changes

2005-12-29 Thread Archive Administrator
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Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
(CC to d-kernel and yaird-devel for comments. Topic is a question in Debian Installer regarding the initramfs generator to use. For the start of the thread see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg01228.html) On Thursday 29 December 2005 09:07, Christian Perrier wrote: by which

Bug#323318: Patch fix gcc4 issues

2005-12-29 Thread Philippe Coval
Hi, I needed to compile a module for linux-kernel-2.4, and find out this couple of patches wich fix thoses errors http://user.it.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/patches/2.4/patch-gcc4-fixes-v12-2.4.32

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Maximilian Attems
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:01:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (CC to d-kernel and yaird-devel for comments. Topic is a question in Debian Installer regarding the initramfs generator to use. For the start of the thread see: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg01228.html) On

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:18:04PM +0100, Maximilian Attems wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:01:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (CC to d-kernel and yaird-devel for comments. Topic is a question in Debian Installer regarding the initramfs generator to use. For the start of the thread see:

Bug#336103: dma off

2005-12-29 Thread maximilian attems
tags 336103 moreinfo thanks please try against latest initramfs-tools version 0.46 atm in incoming.debian.org and report back if the dma issue is fixed, ide-generic will be loaded as last with it so this should be fixed. please use a clean /etc/mkinitramfs/modules and update-initramfs -u --

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
(Please do not CC me; I'm subscribed to all lists relevant here) On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:34, Sven Luther wrote: I would have thought it the other way around, there is no reason to use initramfs-tools for a new install, since we are then not upgrading from 2.4 kernels. That is not a

Bug#345129: linux-image-2.6.14-2-686 and ALI5451 module

2005-12-29 Thread Laurent Neiger
Hi, maximilian attems wrote: cher Laurent! And furthermore you know french ! Whaoo :-) hmm that is an usb driver. we only disabled CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH two days ago, so not yet uploaded, might be related. Ho yes, possible... please monitor experimental and feedback if next kernel upload

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:48:09PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: (Please do not CC me; I'm subscribed to all lists relevant here) On Thursday 29 December 2005 16:34, Sven Luther wrote: I would have thought it the other way around, there is no reason to use initramfs-tools for a new install,

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:27, Sven Luther wrote: What if we defaulted to yaird, we know that yaird, by design, will fail at install time and not at boot time, and give an error message, which we can grab and append to the log messages or whatever. It does not in all cases, like for

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:47:41PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:27, Sven Luther wrote: What if we defaulted to yaird, we know that yaird, by design, will fail at install time and not at boot time, and give an error message, which we can grab and append to the log

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 29 December 2005 18:39, Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 04:01:15PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: Here are the settings I propose to upload the new version of base-installer with: - Question asked at medium priority - Default generator settings (based on [1] and klibc

Bug#317756: Image defects with 2.6.14/atyfb/Sunblade 100 (fwd)

2005-12-29 Thread Jurij Smakov
Thanks, Luis. I'm forwarding your information to the bug so that it'll not get lost. I'll also write to debian-sparc list, a few people have reported that corruption there recently, so they will probably willing to test it out. Best regards, Jurij Smakov

Bug#345227: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: USB driver ehci_hcd fails to enter ACPI S3 state on IBM Thinkpad T40

2005-12-29 Thread Kostas Evangelinos
Subject: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: USB driver ehci_hcd fails to enter ACPI S3 state on IBM Thinkpad T40 Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** When running ACPI, attempting to enter S3 sleep state is not

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Frans Pop wrote: Hmm. I think it is on the same level as offering static network configuration over DHCP or, maybe better, (not) loading some modules during hardware detection. The main advantage of the patch as I see it is its flexibility: it allows both us and derivatives to set things

Bug#345237: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: e1000 driver stops working after ACPI suspend/resume cycle on IBM Thinkpad T40

2005-12-29 Thread Kostas Evangelinos
Subject: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686: e1000 driver stops working after ACPI suspend/resume cycle on IBM Thinkpad T40 Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 Version: 2.6.8-16sarge1 Severity: normal *** Please type your report below this line *** After resuming operation from an ACPI S3 suspend, system is

Preparing 2.6.15-rc7 for experimental

2005-12-29 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, I would like to get on with the preparations of 2.6.15-rc7 and schedule an upload to experimental for tomorrow evening UTC. The following architectures need their configs still to be updated: alpha hppa m68k s390 Anyone objecting against this schedule? It still would be great to

Re: Preparing 2.6.15-rc7 for experimental

2005-12-29 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 11:28:59PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote: The following architectures need their configs still to be updated: hppa I can update hppa's... Could someone remind me how one goes about doing it? Cheers, Kyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#345262: alt-left/right out of consoles with gettys can't get back

2005-12-29 Thread Joey Hess
Package: linux-image-2.6.14-2-386 Version: 2.6.14-6 Severity: normal I'm in the habit of using alt-left arrow or alt-right arrow to move between virtual consoles at the linux console. With this kernel, if I am in tty1 and I alt-left, I get to a blank console (with a cursor at the top). If I then

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.15 should work with older udev. Not really. udev versions older than 072 do not support the new nested classes used by the input subsystem in kernels = 2.6.15. The effect is that device nodes in /dev/input/ will not be created, and the respective drivers will not be

Re: Preparing 2.6.15-rc7 for experimental

2005-12-29 Thread Frederik Schueler
Hello, On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 06:20:56PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: I can update hppa's... Could someone remind me how one goes about doing it? you need split-config from trunk/scripts/ which probably won't work out of the box because of the debian architecture name and the kernel one

Re: [Yaird-devel] Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:47:41 +0100 Frans Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2005 17:27, Sven Luther wrote: What if we defaulted to yaird, we know that yaird, by design, will fail at install time and not at boot time, and give

Re: more current kernels for sarge in volatile?

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:56:26AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.6.15 should work with older udev. Not really. udev versions older than 072 do not support the new nested classes used by the input subsystem in kernels = 2.6.15. The effect is that device nodes in

Re: initramfs generator selection

2005-12-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:49:42PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Frans Pop wrote: Hmm. I think it is on the same level as offering static network configuration over DHCP or, maybe better, (not) loading some modules during hardware detection. The main advantage of the patch as I see it is