Bug#368436: I don't think this bug is fixed

2007-03-09 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, This bug does not look very fixed to me. Where are the System.map* or config-* files? Faheem. ** orwell:/home/faheem# dpkg -L linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686

backporting 2.6.38 from unstable to squeeze

2011-04-15 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, If this is not the right mailing list for this question, please let me know which one is. Thanks. I just compiled the 2.6.38 linux-image Debian package from source on squeeze, per the instructions in http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.4. I don't know

Re: backporting 2.6.38 from unstable to squeeze

2011-04-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Ben, Thanks for the helpful reply. On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 04:03 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: I just compiled the 2.6.38 linux-image Debian package from source on squeeze, per the instructions in http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common

Re: backporting 2.6.38 from unstable to squeeze

2011-04-16 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Ben, On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 13:23 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] Ok. Is the only problem with the lenny 2.6.26 that it has CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled? Or are there other problems? AFAIK that is the only problem. Good to know. Thanks

Re: backporting 2.6.38 from unstable to squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 13:23 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] Also, I just tried to run 2.6.26 (still installed from when I was running lenny) but it crashed and dropped down to the initramfs prompt. I don't have the error message handy right now

building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
-bigmem Am I missing something obvious? Please CC me on any reply. I'm not subscribed. Thanks in advance. Regards, Faheem # HG changeset patch # User Faheem Mitha fah...@email.unc.edu # Date 1303042693 -19800 # Node ID

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi, Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian sources from lenny on squeeze fails with the following below. The only change I made was to set

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:39 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 20:42 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi, Compilation of 2.6.26 Debian

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 05:58 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 02:39 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 16:51 +0100, Ben Hutchings

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-18 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: Well, I followed your instructions, and they seemed to work, though I have not tested the resulting kernel. Addendum: I get this error when trying to install dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-headers-2.6.26-custom1.0-686

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 02:41 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: [...] If I understand this correctly, altering the config changes the kernel ABI. Sometimes. If an exported function is conditional on CONFIG_FOO, or it uses a type whose definition depends

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Ben, On Tue, 19 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-19 at 05:00 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] I've attempted to document this, since it currently does not appear to be. See patch to kernel handbook below. I'm sure I'm made errors, so corrections, please. [...] Thanks.

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-23 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 23 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: I've made some more changes - mostly additions - to your patch. [snippage] Oops, I accidentally included some redundant stuff. Resending corrected patch. Regards, Faheem diff -r 657cba972ce9 -r

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think it's necessary to explain ABI maintenance in this much detail, that probably belongs in a new chapter. Ok. Well, feel free to take it out then. In any case, I hope you will apply

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-25 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think it's necessary to explain ABI maintenance in this much detail, that probably belongs in a new chapter. Ok. Well, feel free to take

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-04-30 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 13:35 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Faheem Mitha wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I think this is just too much detail for this section. If you think it's necessary to explain ABI

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-04 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 01:52 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: Yes, I saw that when I checked your svn repos. You forgot (or intentionally omitted, but if so, said nothing) to add the bit about the linux-headers-common to 4.2. See the relevant portion

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi Ben, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: I'm slowly working down my to-do list, and got to this: On Thu, 2011-05-05 at 01:53 +0530, Faheem Mitha wrote: diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530 +++ b/chapter

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 17 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: diff -r 8b4d248d871d chapter-common-tasks.sgml --- a/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:07:52 2011 +0530 +++ b/chapter-common-tasks.sgml Thu May 05 01:49:03 2011 +0530 @@ -176,7 +176,16 @@

Re: building 2.6.26 kernel source fails on squeeze

2011-05-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 19 May 2011, Ben Hutchings wrote: On the git repository, per http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/kernel-handbook-general/2011-May/84.html Ah, git. That's an improvement, Thanks. Sorry, I wasn't following the kernel handbook ml.

backporting 3.13 from experimental to wheezy

2014-02-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
Hi, See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115921/4671 I'm trying to backport 3.13 to wheezy, using instructions in the kernel handbook, namely http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5. The main stumbling block seems to be (so far) that gcc 4.8 is required, indeed

Re: backporting 3.13 from experimental to wheezy

2014-02-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014, Faheem Mitha wrote: Hi, See http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115921/4671 I'm trying to backport 3.13 to wheezy, using instructions in the kernel handbook, namely http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5. The main stumbling block seems

bug in Debian kernel build scripts

2014-02-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
I've found a bug in the build process described in http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5 Where should I report this? Details follow. faheem@orwell:/usr/local/src/linux$ apt-get source linux-source-3.13 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree

Re: bug in Debian kernel build scripts

2014-02-19 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Faheem Mitha wrote: I've found a bug in the build process described in http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html#s4.2.5 Where should I report this? Details follow. Now, I think this was user error. As can be seen from the message I wrote