Re: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

2023-10-05 Thread Russ Allbery
icularly in stable. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > Am 10.05.2018 um 19:22 schrieb Russ Allbery: >> I may be misunderstanding the nature of the issue, but I believe that a >> Type=oneshot service that runs a small C program that calls getrandom() >> and then exit(0) when it ret

Re: Fixing Linux getrandom() in stable

2018-05-10 Thread Russ Allbery
that decide to take this approach (this seems obviously correct for kadmind, for instance), having this sort of facility available would make it easy to declare the right dependency. It's akin to systemd-networkd-wait-online.service. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

Bug#733521: linux-image-3.12-1-amd64: System76 Gazelle Pro crashes on hibernate

2013-12-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Oh, one additional piece of information that may be relevant here: this system uses disk encryption as set up by the Debian installer, which includes encryption of the swap partition (and therefore of the hibernate image). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Re: Bug#686436: openafs-modules-dkms: Does not build with squeeze kernel: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
from postinst scripts. I believe linux-libc-dev needs the same Breaks logic as libc6-dev, namely something like: Breaks: gcc-4.4 ( 4.4.6-4), gcc-4.5 ( 4.5.3-2), gcc-4.6 ( 4.6.0-12) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Bug#686436: openafs-modules-dkms: Does not build with squeeze kernel: error: asm/errno.h: No such file or directory

2012-09-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 12:21:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: [...] linux-libc-dev maintainers, when upgrading to squeeze, there is currently nothing preventing linux-libc-dev from being upgraded to a version that uses multiarch paths in advance

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
is fairly reasonable, is keeping them out of testing until shortly before the freeze and then updating them for the freeze, which means only doing new uploads for ABI changes that happen during the freeze or in stable (relatively rare). -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
that makes this somewhat more obsolete. That means that the average user should, through the dependency tree, get the header package installed when they install nvidia-modules-dkms, which in turn they should get via Recommends from nvidia-graphics-modules. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Re: autobuilding src:nvidia-* [non-free]

2012-08-06 Thread Russ Allbery
kernel a long time ago, so most of my understanding is hearsay. I keep maintaining -source packages for other packages with kernel modules mostly because I keep getting a small number of bug reports for them, so people are clearly still using them. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org

Bug#657802: nfs-kernel-server: NFSv4 kerberos mount stopped working after upgrade to 6.0.4 point release

2012-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
off the -e flag completely and let the Kerberos infrastructure use whatever its default configured enctype list is. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Bug#657802: nfs-kernel-server: NFSv4 kerberos mount stopped working after upgrade to 6.0.4 point release

2012-01-31 Thread Russ Allbery
ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_CRC ENCTYPE_DES_CBC_MD4 which is indeed every enctype that you're ever likely to care about. So just omitting the -e flag would be correct with that set of supported enctypes. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
supported 3DES, and you don't want to use plain DES any more (and it has to be specifically enabled on the Windows side, if they haven't dropped it entirely now). I'm not sure what enctypes the kernel-level support currently implements. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
/SAG.LOCAL@SAG.LOCAL renew until 11/15/11 22:51:28 It would be more interesting to run klist -e after attempting to contact the server, so that you can see what the encryption type of the service ticket for the NFS server was. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
ticket for nfs/archiv.sag.local@SAG.LOCAL has. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Bug#622146: nfs-kernel-server: error Encryption type not permitted

2011-11-14 Thread Russ Allbery
have the backported version of everything and your daemon still only supports DES somehow? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2011-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
very much for all the work that you put into maintaining the ABI!) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2011-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk writes: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 17:23 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: With hundreds of servers, we'd rather not install compilers and DKMS on every one of them, and with lots of machines, the loss of reproducibility from separately compiling the modules on every

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2011-01-04 Thread Russ Allbery
for multiple packages. But writing the original -source package rules file is arcane and very under-documented, so this is potentially a long-term improvement. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Re: Bug#607368: Please decide how kernel ABI should be managed

2010-12-26 Thread Russ Allbery
in how this is handled. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y67c45rx

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-11 Thread Russ Allbery
think that may be fixed upstream now, although we're not sure because none of the people currently working on the NVIDIA packages have a Xen host to test with. (It at least compiles, which it didn't do before.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
primarily because we want to be sure it makes sense to release pre-built modules for Xen and OpenVZ kernels with squeeze. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
maximilian attems m...@stro.at writes: On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:51:33AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Does this change mean that the module builds for Xen and OpenVZ kernels may not continue working with later versions of those kernels because the ABI might not be stable? Or is this a more

Re: Xen/OpenVZ out-of-tree module builds and ABI

2010-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
ABI number across all image packages so there is no indication of when the ABI changes for them. Thanks! I'll get those kernel module builds removed before squeeze releases. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Bug#556009: ath9k disassociates frequently, regression from 2.6.30

2010-05-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: normal There were apparently multiple problems involved here, and the upstream bug is still open, so I'm not sure whether you want to close this. But for the record, my problems were completely resolved by 2.6.32 and have not recurred. -- System Information: Debian

Bug#519941: Remove Policy permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf

2009-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
are using prgnlibtool/prgn to do their linking. The latest GNU libtools (= 1.3a) can take advantage of the metadata in the Please copy 519...@bugs.debian.org on all discussion. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#521515: Fwd: Re: Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
of the kernel without using kbuild. OpenAFS *does* use kbuild. Aaron, what exactly breaks? Example error messages? Is it just the symlinking to standardize the names of the header files across platforms that doesn't work? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
the build work? You'll have to do this after make_kbuild_makefile.pl runs. (If that's more complexity to testing than you can easily do, I'll be able to look at it eventually, but I don't have the new kbuild infrastructure installed anywhere yet.) rx may require similar treatment. -- Russ Allbery (r

Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-28 Thread Russ Allbery
the AFS-specific details. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#521515: linux-headers-2.6.29-1-amd64: please restore symlinks into -common

2009-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
the intended use of the new layout in these packages? Are modules expected to provide a search path for include files rather than assuming headers are in one unified location? -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-19 Thread Russ Allbery
the standard and test the implications. It may end up being somewhat moot anyway since we have at least one report that a new kernel module does indeed require a new openafs-client -- I'm going to check with upstream about that. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
testing. So... I guess my question is, what is the policy for etchnhalf for packages that involve kernel modules? Is it fair game to upload a new upstream version, unlike the normal stable release policies? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
dann frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:48:45AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I'm quite happy to upload new packages for etchnhalf, but I'm afraid they'd have to be just that -- packages of a newer upstream. The upstream changes to support newer kernels are far too

Re: openafs in etchnhalf

2008-06-17 Thread Russ Allbery
(it's the standard module build pattern). If it were called something other than openafs.tar.gz or expanded into a different directory, wouldn't that confuse tools like module-assistant? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
for reasons that have nothing to do with vendors and supposed trade secrets; in this case, it was because OpenAFS is a huge body of code that acquired hundreds or thousands of independent submissions under the IBM Public License and at this point it's not feasible to relicense it. -- Russ Allbery

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.20-2 Severity: important The 2.6.20 kernels in unstable for 686 and k7 have CONFIG_PARAVIRT enabled. This apparently redefines various operations widely used by kernel modules (or included via inlined functions) to redirect through a paravirts_ops table, but the

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
maximilian attems [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: kvm is a too interesting tech to be disabled, checkout buildserver trunk builds to see if it is solved in 2.6.21-rcX - wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel Okay, we'll check. Thanks. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org

Bug#419943: linux-2.6: CONFIG_PARAVIRT breaks some external modules

2007-04-18 Thread Russ Allbery
. If the decision of the Debian kernel team is that the interface is actually stable and ready to be exported, it seems reasonable to also reverse the patch that declared it not to be. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.6.19, kernel-package problems and what are our plans for etch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Russ Allbery
changes. For full 2.6.19 support on all platforms I believe I'd need to pull patches from CVS for OpenAFS, whereas the current packages are stable and functioning on 2.6.18. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Etch timeline is unrealistic because non-free firmware is NOT being dealt with

2006-08-10 Thread Russ Allbery
seems to be lost in this thread and I don't want people to miss it. It *does* happen that the concept of source isn't overly meaningful for some things. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject