Re: a kernel plan for sarge and beyond ...

2005-03-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
will not work with it, and will just fail horribly later on instead of displaying the error message. How about using a system a la snapshot.debian.net so that downloading module udebs will always be correct for any given installer image? Just throwing out an idea... -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc

Bug#295412: initrd-tools: Fails to ignore 32bit emulation layer on ldd calls

2005-02-17 Thread Joshua Kwan
Harald Dunkel wrote: Assuming that valid shared library paths start with '/' I would suggest to apply this patch to mkinitrd: Hmm, maybe not if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is being used. Beware. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Status of Kernel 2.4.28 packages?

2005-01-09 Thread Joshua Kwan
it in the archive and tested. Hope this status update quells any other concerns.. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#277681: CAN-2004-0814: Linux terminal layer races

2004-11-03 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:44:22AM +0900, Horms wrote: kernel-source-2.6.9: Fixed in 2.6.9-1 release (probably still stuck in new) NB, it hit unstable but has had a dummy RC bug filed on it to prevent transition to sarge. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bug#271310: eth0 not identified

2004-09-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
.) I fear that using NEWS.Debian won't be obvious enough. And a debconf note seems overkill, and I have no idea how to integrate that into the kernel image package. Or should I show no mercy? :) -- Joshua Kwan

Re: Bug#272768: USB device detection broken in latest kernels version 2.4.26 and 2.4.27

2004-09-23 Thread Joshua Kwan
resolution. -- Joshua Kwan

kernel-source-2.6.8-6 ready?

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Kwan
Hello, I'm wondering how close kernel-source-2.6.8-6 is to being ready for prime time. Andres is waiting on it for i386 images. I'm waiting on it for sparc images. Is it possible to get it out the door soon, or are there still some lingering concerns? Thanks, -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc

Re: Bug#271088: Please enable IKCONFIG

2004-09-11 Thread Joshua Kwan
Michel Daenzer wrote: Please enable the CONFIG_IKCONFIG and CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC configuration options so one can look at the configuration of the running kernel. ... Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-powerpc How about /boot/config-2.6.7-powerpc? -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Bug#270941: depmod: Can't open /stor/usr-src/linux/debian/tmp-image/lib/modules/extra/modules.dep for writing

2004-09-10 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:29:42AM -0600, Daniel Webb wrote: make-kpkg clean followed by repeating the original make-kpkg command. Is that not enough to fix the damage? Not if the kernel build neatly filled up your entire disk. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread Joshua Kwan
John wrote: ns:~# uname -r 2.4.27-1-686 Please update to version 2.4.27-2 of kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686 and tell me what happens. This was definitely fixed already. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 03:13:24PM +0800, John wrote: Joshua When will this be in testing? If not soon, pls give me a direct URL to use with wget. I don't want to download lots of Sid through my modem. Through some act of ftpmaster it's actually in testing already. -- Joshua Kwan

Bug#270199: Performance prob applies to 2.4.27-1-686 too

2004-09-07 Thread Joshua Kwan
, which sounds like the older problem (except that it's fixed now!) -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: kernel-source version

2004-09-06 Thread Joshua Kwan
be that you used debchange and it mistakenly thought that you were in a native package, because as i recall at one point the changelog for -6 was corrupted due to a missing trailer line. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#266940: kernel-source-2.4.26: kernel build fails (make bzImage) when CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL is enabled(Y)

2004-09-03 Thread Joshua Kwan
: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 Could you 1) try with 2.4.27? (kernel-source-2.4.27) and failing that, 2) send me your .config? I can't reproduce your problem here. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PDC20262 doesn't load w/2.4.27-686

2004-09-03 Thread Joshua Kwan
could not close it. (2.4.27-5 source - 2.4.27-2 kernel-image-2.4.27-i386, btw) -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#269648: kernel-kbuild-2.6-2: Build-depends on kernel-source-2.6.5

2004-09-03 Thread Joshua Kwan
the main kernel packages having a dependency on glibc. I think it's perfectly reasonable for kernel-_headers_ to depend on glibc, but not for the images, of course. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: patches management in Debian kernels...

2004-09-02 Thread Joshua Kwan
that works for you. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#269383: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686: Problem with devicemapper.

2004-09-01 Thread Joshua Kwan
alister.winfield wrote: LV Size1.95 TB I was under the impression that 2.4 could only handle = 1TB sanely, not 2. So probably the support here is iffy. Correct me if I'm wrong... -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#268188: kernel-source-2.4.27: libata.o not compiled as module

2004-08-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (after having been given a Bug report number, if it did not have one). See, I trust myself ;) And yes, Giacomo doesn't need to read this message so I haven't included him on this one. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#268611: kernel-patch-debian-2.6.8: please provide patch to pristine kernel as before.

2004-08-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
that made sense..) Yes, it's useless in the eyes of an end user but prevents spurious build failures due to inconsistencies between kernel-source package versions. *shrug* -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Bug#258082: missing advansys module

2004-08-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
into a speech-free, crippled distribution. That's not what I joined the project for. I suggest that you reconsider the long term effects of all this and perhaps try to come up with a less destructive to the situation (which I do believe is a valid one, within reason.) -- Joshua Kwan

Re: [PROPOSAL] 2.4.27 as default 2.4 kernel for sarge

2004-08-29 Thread Joshua Kwan
Sven Luther wrote: I asked because another guy (with a piix chipset though), was claiming that his chipset was not detected, and thus that dma was not activated. If he was using 2.4.27 tell him to use 2.4.26 for now. As I've mentioned in other mails I just fixed 2.4.27, in trunk. -- Joshua Kwan

kernel-tree-2.6.8-5

2004-08-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
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Creating kernel-latest-2.X-arch packages

2004-08-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
be removed. They differ throughout our source packages so I trust that intelligent maintainers can just figure it out ;). Also, of course, those metapackages need to be removed from the control file. Thanks for your cooperation.. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#268188: kernel-source-2.4.27: libata.o not compiled as module

2004-08-28 Thread Joshua Kwan
a make *config run (2.6 does this a lot better.) So, I'm tagging this bug wontfix. I've verified that it builds fine with CONFIG_SCSI=m. Thanks Josh -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

kernel-source-2.4.27 uploaded

2004-08-24 Thread Joshua Kwan
was in tg3_request_firmware. So rebuild and reupload against kernel-tree-2.4.27-4 as you see fit, maintainers. Sorry for this inconvenience. [1] Note that the firmwareless tg3 patch applied in 2.4.26-6 is not affected at all, it was detected and fix before the package got uploaded. -- Joshua

kernel-source-2.4.27-4 :(

2004-08-19 Thread Joshua Kwan
, without the need to lump them all together. Cool, isn't it? Also better than dpatch in that you don't need to source some file providing the boilerplate functions.. -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#263216: general handling is not good either

2004-08-18 Thread Joshua Kwan
. dec_esp is for mips. mac_esp is for m68k. mca_53c9x is for i386 (mostly.) sun3x_esp is now unsupported as we don't support SUN4 anymore. Why are these uncompilable modules getting pulled in? -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: 2.4.27 in NEW

2004-08-15 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 11:23:08AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Can you make the packages available for download somewhere? Hm, if you'd been in either #debian-kernel or read my blog, you know it's all at http://people.debian.org/~joshk/2.4.27/ ... :) -- Joshua Kwan signature.asc

2.4.27 in NEW

2004-08-14 Thread Joshua Kwan
arches. Thanks -- Joshua Kwan

patch for mkinitrd to use /proc/self/fd

2004-07-06 Thread Joshua Kwan
a river when it can just use /proc/self/fd. So which is broken, makedev or initrd-tools? -- Joshua Kwan diff -urN bah/initrd-tools-0.1.71/mkinitrd initrd-tools-0.1.71/mkinitrd --- bah/initrd-tools-0.1.71/mkinitrd2004-07-01 08:02:43.0 -0700 +++ initrd-tools-0.1.71/mkinitrd2004-07