Bug#680278: not specific to linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae

2012-07-19 Thread S. G.
Same problem here with linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64, Version 3.2.21-3. So this bug does not seem to be specific to the binary package. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Bug#681743: i915: display backlight brightness initially set to zero on boot

2012-07-19 Thread Gedalya
Tested 3.5.0-rc7+, boots up the same way, with the backlight off. Adding i915.invert_brightness=1 makes it turn the brightness up to the maximum as expected, however this is pretty ugly. Without this parameter, I can just turn the brightness up with the fn keys and I get the nice on-screen

Bug#682063: firmware-iwlwifi: Version 0.36 breaks firmware loading

2012-07-19 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 0.36 Severity: important Hello, With the version 0.36 of firmware-iwlwifi fails to load the iwlagn module with the error: Jul 19 08:39:23 pomegues kernel: [ 1241.775811] iwlagn :01:00.0: request for firmware file 'iwlwifi-6000g2b-5.ucode' failed. Jul 19

Bug#673107: kirkwood: TCP checksum errors when using MTU 9000

2012-07-19 Thread Damien Martins
Same behaviour :/ dmesg shows : [ 619.869032] [c002f078] (unwind_backtrace+0x0/0xdc) from [c00ab688] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4dc/0x57c) [ 619.878846] [c00ab688] (__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x4dc/0x57c) from [c00ab73c] (__get_free_pages+0x14/0x44) [ 619.888727] [c00ab73c]

Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-19 Thread Lesław Kopeć
On 07/18/2012 01:25 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Anders Boström wrote: Starting with 3.2.17-1, the CPU load accounting is broken when the computer is idle. The CPU load is reported as 0.50 when idle. 3.2.16-1 don't suffer from this problem. Suspected patch is the upstream patch sched: Fix

Re: Time to upload linux (3.2.23-1)?

2012-07-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk (19/07/2012): There are various fairly important fixes pending for linux. When would be a good time to upload these? Provided the ABI doesn't change, feel free to upload at any time. Mraw, KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#682063: firmware-iwlwifi: Version 0.36 breaks firmware loading

2012-07-19 Thread Bjørn Mork
Sylvestre Ledru sylves...@debian.org writes: Package: firmware-iwlwifi Version: 0.36 Severity: important Hello, With the version 0.36 of firmware-iwlwifi fails to load the iwlagn module with the error: Jul 19 08:39:23 pomegues kernel: [ 1241.775811] iwlagn :01:00.0: request for

Bug#682063: marked as done (firmware-iwlwifi: Version 0.36 breaks firmware loading)

2012-07-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:08:01 +0100 with message-id 1342696081.11373.106.ca...@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk and subject line Re: Bug#682063: firmware-iwlwifi: Version 0.36 breaks firmware loading has caused the Debian Bug report #682063, regarding firmware-iwlwifi: Version 0.36

Bug#682007: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: NULL pointer dereference in __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages

2012-07-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: ** Tainted: PO (4097) * Proprietary module has been loaded. * Out-of-tree module has been loaded. 21:04:00 kefka [187206.183487] Pid: 20810, comm: MATLAB Tainted: P O 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 #1 We don't support proprietary stuff.

Bug#673107: kirkwood: TCP checksum errors when using MTU 9000

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 10:43 +0200, Damien Martins wrote: Same behaviour :/ dmesg shows : [...] MTU of 9000 requires 4 contiguous pages of memory for each packet. On a machine with only 256 MB of memory, that tends to be hard to find. This is not a bug. Are the checksum errors gone? Ben.

Bug#674153: [3.2.16 - 3.2.17 regression] High reported CPU load when idle

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:12 +0200, Lesław Kopeć wrote: On 07/18/2012 01:25 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Anders Boström wrote: Starting with 3.2.17-1, the CPU load accounting is broken when the computer is idle. The CPU load is reported as 0.50 when idle. 3.2.16-1 don't suffer from this

Bug#682007: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: NULL pointer dereference in __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:37 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: ** Tainted: PO (4097) * Proprietary module has been loaded. * Out-of-tree module has been loaded. 21:04:00 kefka [187206.183487] Pid: 20810, comm: MATLAB Tainted: P O

Bug#682007: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: NULL pointer dereference in __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages

2012-07-19 Thread Brian Kroth
Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk 2012-07-19 13:32: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:37 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: ** Tainted: PO (4097) * Proprietary module has been loaded. * Out-of-tree module has been loaded. 21:04:00 kefka

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: Let's have an example: when I have to build upstream on a distro here, I take the distro config and use it despite that it takes a long time to build since everything is module - it is still better for me to wait that one time

Bug#682116: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: NULL pointer dereference related to nfs/cachefilesd

2012-07-19 Thread Raoul Bhatia [IPAX]
Package: src:linux Version: 3.2.20-1~bpo60+1 Severity: important I'm seeing an error much like the one reported as bug #682007. The setup seems quite similar: 1. NFS server exports an nfsv4 share: /data/export

Bug#682007: linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64: NULL pointer dereference in __fscache_read_or_alloc_pages

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 09:03:26AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk 2012-07-19 13:32: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:37 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:16:33AM -0500, Brian Kroth wrote: ** Tainted: PO (4097) * Proprietary module has been loaded.

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:17:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: The *two* requirements (and they're really the same theme) I personally think we should have for this are - I think every single select for these things should come with a comment about what it is about and why the distro

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: Side note, and this is for the 1%. If you want a true minconfig for your system, ktest can do that for you. Try it, it's actually much harder than it seems. Like allmodconfig, it handles the minimum hardware well, but

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:26:18AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:17:30PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: The *two* requirements (and they're really the same theme) I personally think we should have for this are - I think every single select for these things

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:45 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Of course the kbuild system would need to verify that the selects exist, and perhaps warn if they do not. But the nice thing about this is that you would get the minconfig for the system you are running. When the system is updated to a

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 08:43 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Steven Rostedt rost...@goodmis.org wrote: Side note, and this is for the 1%. If you want a true minconfig for your system, ktest can do that for you. Try it, it's actually much harder than it seems.

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Michal Marek
On 17.7.2012 10:03, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:26 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote: Some of the proposed ways to implement the minimum distro kernel would not allow you to override the

[bts-link] source package src:linux

2012-07-19 Thread bts-link-upstream
# # bts-link upstream status pull for source package src:linux # see http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg1.html # user bts-link-upstr...@lists.alioth.debian.org # remote status report for #680707 (http://bugs.debian.org/680707) # Bug title: Asus P5NSLI: lockup on resume

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:42:17AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 07:48:27PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: Let's have an example: when I have to build upstream on a distro here, I take the distro config and use it despite that it takes a long time to build since

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 18:48 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: Also, if you are building on another box than what the kernel is for, you can go to that box and run 'lsmod /tmp/lsmod'. Copy that file to the build machine (into /tmp/lsmod), and then run 'make LSMOD=/tmp/lsmod localmodconfig',

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Borislav Petkov b...@amd64.org wrote: Seriously, this helps only in the cases where the stuff the distro actually needs is in modules. So, there probably are obscure situations where you need to enable stuff which is bool and not M. Sadly, not obscure at all.

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:08:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 11:45 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Of course the kbuild system would need to verify that the selects exist, and perhaps warn if they do not. But the nice thing about this is that you would get the minconfig

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Cox
Well, yes. I was thinking it would be more like: distro/Kconfig.fedora menuconfig FEDORA if FEDORA config FEDORA_16 select WHATEVER config FEDORA_17 Nope you need distro/everyarchtheyship/everykernelvarianttkeyship(smp,largemem,arm boards)/Kconfig

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: What about older kernels? Say you installed Fedora 18 with an older kernel that doesn't know what to select? Having the distro tell the kernel what it needs seems to me the easiest for the 99% case. How is the above not telling the

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:02:46PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: This is why I created the make-min-config in ktest. It keeps on disabling configs to see what the machine needs to boot (and optionally run some test), and what configs it can disable. It does not touch the multi options though.

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Alan Cox
kconfig already spits out warnings for symbols being selected that don't exist. We can make these even bigger :-) Add lots of stars (*) around them! Make oldconfig already handles this just fine Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Well, yes. I was thinking it would be more like: distro/Kconfig.fedora menuconfig FEDORA if FEDORA config FEDORA_16 select WHATEVER config FEDORA_17 Nope you need

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:06:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Borislav Petkov b...@amd64.org wrote: Seriously, this helps only in the cases where the stuff the distro actually needs is in modules. So, there probably are obscure situations where you need

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:33:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: What about older kernels? Say you installed Fedora 18 with an older kernel that doesn't know what to select? Having the distro tell the kernel what it needs seems to me

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 19:34 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: I can pass the above to a allnoconfig, and the box will boot and allow ssh. Note, the reason for the serial config, is that this ktest run uses a serial port to see if the box booted. If the serial isn't there, then it thinks it

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:57:26PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: Yes, I know you know this already, as we discussed it in a pub over a beer (choir practice). But this is a public forum on LKML (the church), where I now have an audience of heathens. Convert! Convert! You are all sinners! Ah,

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Distros aren't stationary things. Exactly my point. I mean, some of them certainly aim for that goal, but userspace and kernels get upgraded all the time. So if this distro-Kconfig file is provided by some package _other_ than the

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Bolle
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: kconfig already spits out warnings for symbols being selected that don't exist. Does it? Since when does it do that? Or do you mean select in a more general way (not just meaning Kconfig's select statement)? Paul Bolle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:20:36PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: kconfig already spits out warnings for symbols being selected that don't exist. Does it? Since when does it do that? Or do you mean select in a more general way (not just

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Josh Boyer jwbo...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 08:20:36PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:19 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: kconfig already spits out warnings for symbols being selected that don't exist. Does it? Since when does it

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:13:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Distros aren't stationary things. Exactly my point. I mean, some of them certainly aim for that goal, but userspace and kernels get upgraded all the time. So if

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Bolle
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 20:49 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: I believe Alan was more correct than me when he said it was 'make oldconfig' that produced the warnings. Kconfig does spit out warnings for selecting things with unmet dependencies. But does anyone care? [...checking logs...]

Re: [opensuse-kernel] Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 07:53:10PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:06:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Borislav Petkov b...@amd64.org wrote: Seriously, this helps only in the cases where the stuff the distro actually needs is

Bug#679750: Lenovo G360: ALPS Touchpad Recognized as PS/2 Generic Mouse(with newly dmesg information)

2012-07-19 Thread Seth Forshee
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:15:57AM +0800, littlebat wrote: In the Windows 7 guest OS, the touchpad Lenovo pointing device disappeared from the hardwares list. And, the log file in Ubuntu 11.10 has the content below: y@y-PC:~$ cat ./psmouse-reverse/reverse.log S ff R fe S ff R fe S ff R

Processed: Re: Bug#682144: linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64: flash videos unviewable, invalid command stream on radeon

2012-07-19 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 682144 src:linux 3.2.21-3 Bug #682144 [src] linux-image-3.2.0-3-amd64: flash videos unviewable, invalid command stream on radeon Warning: Unknown package 'src' Bug reassigned from package 'src' to 'src:linux'. No longer marked as found

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: Well, yes. I was thinking it would be more like: distro/Kconfig.fedora menuconfig FEDORA if FEDORA config FEDORA_16 select WHATEVER config FEDORA_17 Nope you need

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread david
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:13:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Distros aren't stationary things. Exactly my point. I mean, some of them certainly aim for that goal, but userspace and kernels

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:04:11PM -0700, da...@lang.hm wrote: On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:13:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 13:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: Distros aren't stationary things. Exactly my point. I mean,

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 18:35 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: 2... yeah. I don't really know if that is going to pan out, but I am ever hopeful. I'd be mostly concerned with people that are coding userspace applications using every whiz-bang kernel feature. Or not paying attention at all to the

Re: 3.2.19-1: after some time, the USB keyboard no longer works

2012-07-19 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-07-14 21:38:05 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: So, it seems that when the problem occurs, the keyboard modifiers may still be working with clicks (to be confirmed). Forget that. The problem is the following: a keypress is taken into account only if the key is kept pressed for about half a

Re: [RFC] Simplifying kernel configuration for distro issues

2012-07-19 Thread david
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:30:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: For the end user case you need the distro to plonk the right file in the right place and be done with it, once they do that the rest is bikeshedding a ten line Makefile rule. This might work