Re: Proposal: Switch to linear git history

On Fri, 2024-09-20 at 18:53 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > Hi > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 04:53:09PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-06-13 at 20:48 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: [...] > > > > ## Proposal > > > > > > > > Stop merging

Re: Dropping i386 kernel packages

On Thu, 2024-09-12 at 02:42 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Hello all, > > This is a heads-up that the kernel team is planning to stop building > i386 kernel packages shortly (probably starting with Linux 6.11). > > As this was previously discussed at last year's Cambr

Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

[Dropped leader@ and community@] On Thu, 2024-09-12 at 00:38 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 02:13 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > [...] > > My answers below are mine alone. I have not discussed this with other > > team members and do not speak for them. >

Re: Proposal: Switch to linear git history

he release and suite so that they don't actually conflict with DEP-14 branch names). Ben. * booxie is the little-known Debian release between bookworm and trixie that included Linux 6.6. :-) -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-09-18

want to add items. Last meeting's minutes are on: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20240911 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I'm always amazed by the number of people who take up solipsism because they heard someone else explain it. - E*Borg on alt.fan.pratchett

Re: Need information where tests can be found for linux-base Debian package

your images. There are some tests in lib/t but they don't cover everything. They do get run in CI. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1081563: Please consider adding the new Xe Graphics driver for Intel GPUs

mitigate the experimentalness somewhat? [...] It mitigates the risk but I'm not sure it will stop people sending us bug reports about the driver when it turns out not to work for them. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. signatur

Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 08:00 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sun, 2024-09-15 at 00:10 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I've done a new cross-build here, so you can test the packages from: > > https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/linux-sh4/ > > Thanks a lot

Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

On Fri, 2024-09-13 at 17:59 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 17:14 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 16:55 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > OK, thanks a lot, this is very useful to know. &

Bug#1081563: Please consider adding the new Xe Graphics driver for Intel GPUs

nel > module. Please consider including this by enabling CONFIG_DRM_XE.  > See following references for more information: [...] This driver is still experimental and it doesn't bind to any devices by default. We probably won't enable it until that changes. Ben. -- Ben Hu

Bug#1081751: RM: linux-signed-i386 -- ROM; no longer built from linux

Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org User: ftp.debian@packages.debian.org Usertags: remove The linux-signed-i386 source package was previously generated from linux via the signing service. This is no longer being done, and linux-signed-i386 has

Re: Dropping i386 kernel packages

On Sat, 2024-09-14 at 01:37 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Hutchings (2024-09-12): > > This is a heads-up that the kernel team is planning to stop building > > i386 kernel packages shortly (probably starting with Linux 6.11). > > Thanks, appreciated. >

Bug#1081546: new "GPU HANG: ecode 12:1:85dffdfb, in Renderer" regression in i915 driver since 6.10 kernel upgrade

are running a distribution kernel. Let us know the upstream bug URL so we can track it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

On Thu, 2024-09-12 at 12:19 +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Dropping leader@ and community@ from Cc as this is a technical > side-track. > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:38:24AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 02:13 +0200, Ben Hutchings w

Dropping i386 kernel packages

/2023/12/msg3.html>, I hope this doesn't come as much of a surprise. :-) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. - John Lehman signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

On Mon, 2024-09-09 at 02:13 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > My answers below are mine alone. I have not discussed this with other > team members and do not speak for them. > > On Wed, 2024-09-04 at 15:30 +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: > > Hello kernel maintainers, > &

Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

On Wed, 2024-09-11 at 12:24 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 21:43 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Yes, I can give it a try tomorrow. Can I just apply the changes from the > > > branch on top of the current kernel package and then just bui

Bug#1081310: Wired ethernet connection disabled.

, though it's sometimes a bit wobbly (with both old and new version). So I'm not convinced that there's a regression here. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 21:28 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Tue, 2024-09-10 at 21:16 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > I'll give it a try next week as I'm currently not at home and unable > > > to access the board for testing. While I can reach the bo

Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

On Tue, 2024-07-23 at 14:57 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Sun, 2024-07-21 at 15:16 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 21:48 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > [...] > > > > - Does anyone have it working wi

Bug#1081195: devscripts: test-patches KeyError: 'pae'

ds to be stripped off while newer kernel release strings with no ABI number but may have a number at the start of the flavour. Having said that, I don't see us ever having an ABI number as high as 686 so that could be special-cased. Until this is fixed you can use the -f option to explicitly spe

Re: Bug#1065416: Bastian's offer in #1065416

uilt by different source packages. I recognise that there is some duplication that could be avoided by building them together and having the -cross packages contain only symlinks, but in my experience of cross-building for embedded systems an extra few megabytes on the build system is in the noise

Bug#1080975: upgrade 6.1.106 to 6.10.6 failed

> in parallel to the new names. The kernel doesn't "support" any of these names; that's all done by udev. I'm reassigning this accordingly. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc

On Mon, 2024-09-02 at 13:33 +0200, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Le lun. 2 sept. 2024 à 00:59, Ben Hutchings a écrit : [...] > > - There is a newer kernel version available in unstable now (6.10.6 or > > maybe 6.10.7 by the time you read this). Does that fix the issu

Bug#1075855: Kernel panic caused by aacraid module prevents normal boot

ould be observed on versions 5.15.* > [...] The crash bug was introduced way back in Linux 2.6.15, which is why my fix was applied to all supported versions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Theory and practice are closer in theory than in practice - John Levine signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#980555: Missing ec_sys module

Control: tag -1 patch I opened an MR for this change at <https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/1182>. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The two most common things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1076555: linux-image-6.9.9-amd64: boot crash RIP: 0010:kmem_cache_alloc

i_sysman module loading, by adding "blacklist=dell_wmi_sysman" to the kernel command line, do all of the error messages stop appearing? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1062421: linux-image-6.5.0-5-686-pae: [iwlegacy] kernel oops

Control: tag -1 patch I attached a patch to the upstream bug report. I am not able to test it myself. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description:

Bug#1078997: gretap tunnel with checksum enabled: some packets have zero checksum

] Please send the output of: ethtool -k ens5f0 | grep tx-gre-csum-segmentation Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1079536: linux-image-6.9.7+bpo-amd64: debian linux-image-amd64 / 6.9.7+bpo video problems on multiheaded Intel ARC 380

eep track of it. (We ask you to do this yourself because the upstream developers will likely need to ask you more questions.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-08-28

enable it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1079686: nouveau: fifo: fault 01 [WRITE] at 0000000000068000 engine 03 [IFB] client 08 [HUB/HOST_CPU_NB]

open, so we can keep track of it. (We ask you to do this yourself because the upstream developers will likely need to ask you more questions.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt

On Sun, 2024-09-01 at 00:40 +0300, Henrik Ahlgren wrote: > On Sat, 2024-08-31 at 23:22 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > None of the driver changes are relevant to this system.  You are not > > using Hyper-V and Linux 6.1 does not include the USB drivers that > > initramfs-tools

Bug#1080203: initramfs-tools: USB keyboard stopped working on LUKS prompt

lugging and re-plugging it. If this problem persists, please send: - The /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf file - The output of "lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-25-amd64" when the old version of initramfs-tools is installed - The output of "lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-6.1.0-

Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-08-28

;s minutes are on: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20240821 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1079460: bookworm-pu: package initramfs-tools/0.142+deb12u1

--- initramfs-tools-0.142/debian/changelog 2022-07-12 23:51:34.0 +0200 +++ initramfs-tools-0.142+deb12u1/debian/changelog 2024-08-23 15:18:27.0 +0200 @@ -1,3 +1,30 @@ +initramfs-tools (0.142+deb12u1) bookworm; urgency=medium + + [ Ben Hutchings ] + * [522d475] d/salsa

initramfs-tools 0.145 release

with the usr-merged directory patterns and with a symlink target. The shortlog is below. Ben. Ben Hutchings (5): autopkgtest: Run tests as root hook-functions: copy_file: Canonicalise target filename Merge branch 'test-as-root' into 'master' Merge bran

initramfs-tools 0.144 release

existing changelog entries mkinitramfs: Add -m argument to override MODULES setting Ben Hutchings (18): Releasing version 0.143.1. Merge branch 'enable-kvm' into 'master' Merge branch 'replace-copy_modules_dir-calls-by-dracut' into 'master&

Bug#1079333: initramfs-tools: upgrading causes dpkg(1) to fail

Control: reopen -1 Control: severity -1 serious Sorry, I got confused by the multiple reports of this and thought you had opened two different bug reports for this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This

Bug#1079150: cryptsetop: Waiting for encrypted source device

On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 13:43 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: [...] > Should I open a separate bug? Or is it a consequence of (a combination) > of the current bugs? How should I fix it? It's a totally different bug; please open a separate report. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simp

Bug#1079150: cryptsetop: Waiting for encrypted source device

rd that the exit status is 0 but it shows errors.) OK, so this is a bug I've just fixed (in version 0.144). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1079150: cryptsetop: Waiting for encrypted source device

On Thu, 2024-08-22 at 01:11 +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 12:46:00AM GMT, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Please send the output of this command: > > > > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 | grep /lib/modules | head > &g

Bug#1064795: iproute2: removing /sbin/ip link breaks other packages and possibly user scripts

it heads-up. I've made a team upload of iproute2 (version 6.10.0-2) with this change reverted. Luca, please leave the symlink in place at least as long as there are packages that rely on it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings All the simple programs have been written, and all the good names taken signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1079150: cryptsetop: Waiting for encrypted source device

 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device UUID=8[...]... >   mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found. >   mdadm: No devices listed in conf file were found. [...] Please send the output of this command: lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 | grep /lib/modules | he

Re: Backport of linux-nonfree to bookworm?

3. But I'm sure that there is other hardware that > would also benefit from a more recent backport. > > I did a successful test build in bookworm environment. I do intend to backport firmware-nonfree, but I need to get a fix for the initramfs-tools symlink duplication bug into stable f

Bug#1072004: linux: regression in the 9p protocol in 6.8 breaks autopkgtest qemu jobs (affecting debci)

part of 6.11-rc4. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-08-07

reply to this message if you want to add items. Last meeting's minutes are on: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20240731 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1039883: linux: ext4 corruption with symlinks

On Tue, 2024-07-09 at 19:32 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: tag -1 patch fixed-upstream > > A fix was applied to the ext4 "dev" branch earlier today: > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git/commit/?h=dev&id=7882b0187bbeb647967a7b599

Bug#1063754: fat-modules: SD corruption upon opening file on Linux desktop

the folders > and watch the thumbnails be created. [...] So one or both of: - A change in the way this newer version of GNOME (or whichever desktop environment you're using) does thumbnail generation - Using USB storage instead of an SD controller mitigates the problem, but we don

Bug#1072063: one of the external monitors randomly blank for 2-3 seconds with 6.8/6.9 Linux kernels (regression)

rt this upstream following <https://drm.pages.freedesktop.org/intel-docs/how-to-file-i915-bugs.html>? (We don't have any patches to the i915 driver or DRM core, so I don't think it matters that you are running a distribution kernel.) Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable f

Re: 回复: please help compile debian linux 5.10.0-18-2-amd64

| source > linux | 5.10.221-1| bullseye-p-u | source > linux | 5.10.221-1| bullseye-security | source Indeed, we don't keep old versions in the main archive after we release updates. You can find (most) old versions of any package on <https://snapsho

Re: firmware-free is marked for autoremoval from testing

This is now fixed with a maintainer upload. Ben. On Sun, 2024-07-28 at 22:12 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > I've (hopefully) addressed this with an NMU of a56, with a delay of 10 > days. > > Ben. > > On Fri, 2024-07-26 at 04:43 +, Debian testing autoremoval watch >

Bug#1027749: update-initramfs could diagnose attempt to run with /dev not mounted

Control: tag -1 wontfix There are many ways in which the environment could be broken, and I don't think it is worth the trouble to check for this one specifically. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Descri

Re: firmware-free is marked for autoremoval from testing

://salsa.debian.org/qa/udd/-/blob/master/udd/testing_autoremovals_gatherer.pl > -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly functioning technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: please help compile debian linux 5.10.0-18-2-amd64

n information through "apt-cache search linux-image" > command. Could you please help me with how to download the related code and > compile this verson of Linux kernel? Thank you. [...] Use "uname -v" to show the package version. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Any smoothly fun

Bug#1072311: linux-perf can (and should) link against libdebuginfod

SOURCES = debuginfod-client.c > > and that debuginfod-client.c is dual-licensed GPL-3+ and GPL-2+[4]: [...] Thank you for pointing this out. I disabled use of debuginfod on 26/12/2022, and it looks like I missed your update to the elfutils debian/copyright file on 21/12/2022 that would

Re: Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-07-24

On Wed, 2024-07-24 at 11:19 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 July 2024 05:09:51 CEST Ben Hutchings wrote: > > The agenda is here: > > https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20240724 > > (note we are unlikely to get through all the bugs). >

Bug#1065698: update-initramfs: -k all stopped working

gt; any longer, it just does nothing. > > Calling without -k of course only updates the image for the current kernel. [...] It works for me. - What's the full command line that doesn't work? - What does "linux-version list" say? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just

Bug#980021: initramfs-tools: Upgrading a LVM2 system with separate /usr to buster breaks booting

/etc/fstab, after fscking and mounting root. There's a separate script, /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/local-block/lvm2, that is called to handle /usr and should activate its volume group. How was /usr listed in /etc/fstab? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who

Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-07-24

tes are on: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20240717 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#1076564: pahole BTF processing seems flaky on powerpc

On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 21:45 +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On Sat, 2024-07-20 at 21:17 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > I had a go yesterday and ran into the same problem. I couldn't > > reproduce with a small kernel config (allnoconfig + BPF + DEBUG_INFO + > >

Re: Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

equests/1133>. Can you test that this produces a working kernel? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Bug#1076564: pahole BTF processing seems flaky on powerpc

7;t reproduce with a small kernel config (allnoconfig + BPF + DEBUG_INFO + DEBUG_INFO_BTF) and there wasn't enough disk space to build even one of the Debian kernel flavours. > Will take care of it and let you know when it's (some hours). Thank you! Ben. -- Ben Hutchings This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Is the sh7785lcr kernel still useful?

el package, and if so how? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1076564: pahole BTF processing seems flaky on powerpc

Package: pahole Version: 1.27-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Several kernel builds on powerpc have failed recently: 6.8.12-1: https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=linux&arch=powerpc&ver=6.8.12-1&stamp=1717234422&raw=1 6.9.9-1: https://buildd.deb

Bug#1076500: firmware-brcm80211: Contains .txt files with a space

) [...] Please reassign this to whichever package needs to be changed for live builds. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Updates to linux-firmware

en source collaboration instead. > I still have access to that address (if anybody wants to check I am who I say > I am) and am still employed at Lenovo (if that makes any difference to > anything) -- Ben Hutchings - Debian developer, member of kernel, installer and LTS teams signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1075855: Kernel panic caused by aacraid module prevents normal boot

ot;. Let us know if you have any difficulty with this. If the system is able to boot with a patched kernel, please send the full kernel log. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon. From 6ef2851f75411b379868119e693ce63440dde869 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Dat

Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-07-10

ernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20240703 Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1074359: nfs-kernel-server: Updating package unexports all

filesystems From: Ben Hutchings To: Hristo Venev Cc: Salvatore Bonaccorso , 1074...@bugs.debian.org Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 20:09:06 +0200 Autocrypt: addr=b...@decadent.org.uk; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata=mQINBEpZoUwBEADWqNn2/TvcJO2LyjGJjMQ6VG86RTfXdfYg31Y2UnksKm81Av

Bug#1039883: linux: ext4 corruption with symlinks

herry-picking it, in case of regressions. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: kernel signed/unsigned packages

packages automatically then there's still a need for some mechanism to avoid accidental installation of a newer unsigned linux-image on a system that needs them to be signed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Who are all these weirdos? - David Bowie, on joining IRC signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1061321: firmware-nonfree: Important changes coming up with upstream version 20230919

e, but it raises the question whether this >    separation still makes sense. I think only the qcom-soc -> atheros recommendation is needed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1064229: firmware-nonfree: CVE-2023-35061 CVE-2023-34983 CVE-2023-33875 CVE-2023-32651 CVE-2023-32644 CVE-2023-32642 CVE-2023-28720 CVE-2023-28374 CVE-2023-26586 CVE-2023-25951

Windows driver, not the firmware). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#572712: use hardened sysctl net.* settings per default

k it can be acceptable to break really unusual configurations if we provide appropriate notification in NEWS and release notes. But like I said, I don't think routers are that rare now. Which of the above would be a problem for routers? > btw: I'd also suggest to activate syncookies per

Bug#1074156: procps: Depend or Recommend linux-sysctl-defaults

Package: procps Version: 2:4.0.4-4 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Following a conversation with the systemd maintainers at , I've added a new binary package linux-sysctl-defaults which installs /usr/

Re: I'm not able to cross-build a Debian kernel by following the instructions because I'm not sure what kind of host system is required

p on my host system if I want to cross-build Debian > for an embedded target? Yes of course you can use a chroot! The most widely used tools for that are pbuilder and sbuild. I think they both have some support for cross-building. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a so

Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool

On Sat, 2024-06-01 at 21:13 +0100, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 14:24, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 14:00 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 00:17, Sudip Mukherjee > > > wrote: > > > >

Bug#1039883: [PATCH] ext4: don't track ranges in fast_commit if inode has inlined data

On Wed, 2024-06-19 at 08:58 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: > On Wed 19 Jun 2024 12:30:38 AM +02, Ben Hutchings wrote; > > > On Tue, 2024-06-18 at 15:43 +0100, Luis Henriques (SUSE) wrote: > > > When fast-commit needs to track ranges, it has to handle inodes that have &g

Re: Agenda items for kernel-team meeting on 2024-06-19

'll add a point to make a decision on which communication medium to use in future. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings For every complex problem there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Bug#1039883: [PATCH] ext4: don't track ranges in fast_commit if inode has inlined data

ommit as ineligible. > > Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039883 > Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques (SUSE) Reported-by: Hervé Werner Tested-by: Ben Hutchings I think this should also have: Fixes: 9725958bb75c ("ext4: fast commit may miss tracking unwritten range

Bug#890601: firmware-free: Source Package Doesn't Contain Source

Control: clone -1 -2 Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -2 firmware-free: Incomplete source for carl9170-1.fw On Thu, 2024-06-06 at 21:18 +0200, Bastian Germann wrote: > Hi Ben, > > Am 05.06.24 um 20:59 schrieb Ben Hutchings: > > Please identify precisely which policy

Bug#1039883: linux: ext4 corruption with symlinks

or message using the above script and: - Linux 6.10-rc2 - A 2 GiB loopback devic instead of /dev/sdb I bisected this back to: commit 9725958bb75cdfa10f2ec11526fdb23e7485e8e4 Author: Xin Yin Date: Thu Dec 23 11:23:37 2021 +0800 ext4: fast commit may miss tracking unwritten range during ftruncate It is

Bug#890601: firmware-free: Source Package Doesn't Contain Source

which policy requirement is violated. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

initramfs-tools 0.143 release

neric framebuffer Arnaud Rebillout (1): Add hyper-keyboard module, needed to enter LUKS password in Hyper-V Aron Xu (1): hook-functions: return from dep_add_modules_mount() for zfs Ben Hutchings (42): Merge branch 'szubersk-shellcheck' into 'master' Mer

Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool

On Thu, 2024-05-30 at 14:00 +0100, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Thu, 30 May 2024 at 00:17, Sudip Mukherjee > wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 at 23:27, Luca Boccassi wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 29 May 2024 19:00:59 +0100 Ben Hutchings > > > wro

Bug#1057282: linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.1-arm64: arm64 kernel upgrade makes systems unresponsive

On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 08:09 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote: > Hi Ben (and all the rest), > > On 15-05-2024 9:56 p.m., Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Apologies for leaving this bug for so long. > > NP, part of live I guess. > > > Is this bug still occurring? > > I don&#

Bug#1063754: fat-modules: SD corruption upon opening file on Linux desktop

Control: tag -1 unreproducible moreinfo Hi Bud, Please understand that when I aksed you to carry out a specific test, I had a good reason for doing exactly that. The tests that you have carried out so far, while useful, don't provide the same information. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Always t

Bug#1057290: bpftool: please build from https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool

d be happy to hand over bpftool to you. I will try to discuss this at this evening's team meeting. Ben. > > [1]. https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool > [2]. https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool/blob/main/README.md?plain=1#L18 > [3]. > https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/267a35a6-a045-c025-c2d9-7

Re: Contacting Debian Kernel team

summary. I have not been very active in the past year outside of LTS. But if you look at the linux changelog you'll see quite a few other regular contributors. > - Do you have some strategy to gather new contributors for > your team? We don't. > - Can I do anythin

Re: Try to bootstrap regular short team-meeting for discussion of open issues, merge requests, tasks

On Sun, 2024-05-19 at 15:42 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2024-05-18 at 14:55 +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > > hi, > > > > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 11:14:45PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 08:56:09AM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccor

Re: Try to bootstrap regular short team-meeting for discussion of open issues, merge requests, tasks

cently" and "soon" by default mean within the last and next 7 days (matching the intended meeting schedule). Of course we may also have agenda times that don't fit into any of those categories. Ben. > I come back to this in the next few days. -- Ben Hutchings For every compl

Bug#1063754: fat-modules: SD corruption upon opening file on Linux desktop

l it up. 2. Remove and reinsert the card. 3. Compare the files on the card with the files you copied from. and report back here. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Uploading linux (6.8.9-1)

art Amp modules * [arm64] Dynamically allocate cpumasks and increase supported CPUs to 512 * [arm64,armhf] Enable SND_SOC_WM8804_I2C for the hifiberry-digi raspberry hat. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it, get a larger hammer. signature.asc Description: T

Bug#1057282: linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.1-arm64: arm64 kernel upgrade makes systems unresponsive

Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 21:36:53 +0100 Paul Gevers wrote: > Control: tags -1 - moreinfo > > Hi Ben and the rest, > > On 04-12-2023 15:10, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> CPU: 6 PID: 15039 Comm: lxc-start Tainted: G  D W    L > >> 6.5.0-0

Bug#1070083: linux: Do we still need sched-autogroup-disabled.patch in 2024?

GROUP is sensible to enable by default: - Fedora enables it except on RT configurations - SUSE disables it - Ubuntu enables it Neither Fedora nor Ubuntu has a similar patch, though it's possible they change the default via a sysctl.conf file. So I think we should: - Drop the patch - Disabl

Bug#1064035: Missing documentation due to error in kernel-doc script

Package: linux-doc-5.10 Version: 5.10.209-1 Severity: important The backport of commit 3080ea5553cc "stddef: Introduce DECLARE_FLEX_ARRAY() helper" modified scripts/kernel-doc and introduced a syntax error: Global symbol "$args" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $args

Bug#1061095: linux-image-6.6.11-amd64: 2.5gbit USB device with r8152 chipset only does 100baset

a Debian/Stable system running > kernel 6.1.0-13-amd64. Is this using the cdc-ncm or r8152 driver? > Half duplex is a problem, but less of a problem than > 100baseT. This is a regression from Debian/Stable. The above also looks very broken, so I would hesitate to say that this has regressed as opposed to showing different symptoms. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Proposal: Switch to linear git history

ble pretty soon > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 05:30:26PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > master: uploaded to experimental > -> debian/release/6.6: uploaded to unstable and stable releases > >-> debian/backport/6.6.1-1: uploaded to backports > >-> de

Re: What to do with d-i on armel?

that > works on bcm2835, versatilepb, at91, kirkwood and > all the others that one might use. If someone wants to make this work in Debian that would be great, but without a specific maintainer it's not going to happen. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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