Fedora kernel has branched for F-12

2009-09-11 Thread Chuck Ebbert
The F-12 branch is now for Fedora 12, and devel is now targeted for Fedora 13. If you have updates that you don't expect to be upstream soon, please update both branches. ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@redhat.com

Re: snd-vxpocket in kernel not enabled in fedora ?

2009-09-09 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:52:16 +0200 tom-ipp deve...@tom-ipp.info wrote: Hello, I assume it's the place to ask my question : is there some known reason to not enable the module alsa snd-vxpocket, for the digigram soundcard? Otherwise, due to its audio quality, and despite of its long life, it

Re: Compiling kernel-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.src.rpm

2009-09-09 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Mon, 7 Sep 2009 14:27:24 -0700 Markus Kesaromous remotes...@live.com wrote: Still not fixed: arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c:63:7: warning: __x86_64__ is not defined It really is just a warning, arising because the kernel gets built with -Wundef.

Re: 2.6.29.1-102.fc11 --with vanilla broken

2009-04-28 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:18:07 -0400 Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: ERROR: Patch linux-2.6-build-nonintconfig.patch not listed as a source patch in specfile error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.8pegaB (%prep) this is due to the following code in ApplyPatch(): if ! egrep

Re: 2.6.29.1-102.fc11 --with vanilla broken

2009-04-28 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:17:04 -0400 Chuck Anderson c...@wpi.edu wrote: Great. I ended up having lots of other issues with vanilla build. At some point during the build, the make oldconfig becomes interactive during the %install phase. I answer all the questions with default values

Re: EDAC on AMD with Fedora 10

2009-04-14 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:44:19 +0100 Jeremy Sanders jer...@jeremysanders.net wrote: Is there any reason the amd76x_edac module doesn't appear in the Fedora 10 kernel RPM? As far as I can see it should be being built from the configuration. We've got an AMD 790X based motherboard which

Re: Patch incomplete write error not returned to NFS client

2009-04-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:17:24 -0400 Victor vicander...@gmail.com wrote: Request for integrating this patch into the next kernel update for Fedora 10. The patch fixes a bug in NFS where an error will not be returned to the NFS client when an incomplete write happens at the filesystem level on

Re: File conflicts between alsa-firmware and kernel-firmware

2009-03-23 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:07:38 -0500 Jarod Wilson ja...@redhat.com wrote: - Is there a long term goal to bring all the firmware from alsa-firmware upstream into the kernel-firmware package? No clue... Would have to talk to some alsa folks. David Woodhouse is working on firmware

Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:15:37 +0100 Thorsten Leemhuis fed...@leemhuis.info wrote: On 25.02.2009 13:27, Chris Lalancette wrote: Gerd Hoffmann wrote: We can also simply do this: - Install PAE kernel if the CPU supports PAE. i.e. make PAE the default kernel. Yes, I really think we

Re: How should anaconda check for PAE? (was Re: arch fun.)

2009-02-24 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:38:42 -0800 (PST) Roland McGrath rol...@redhat.com wrote: If we have NX (which anything made in the last few years will) it's a performance win to use the hardware NX instead of the segment limit hack we implemented in execshield. It's more than performance. The

Rawhide kernel options not enabled?

2009-02-02 Thread Chuck Ebbert
I thought we were going to enable these in rawhide since the e1000 EEPROM problem was fixed: CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER (was CONFIG_FTRACE) CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE Also hda audio powersave is still off; we have: CONFIG_SND_HDA_POWER_SAVE_DEFAULT=0 ___

Skipping 2.6.28 for F8 and F9

2009-01-27 Thread Chuck Ebbert
2.6.28 has turned out to be a bit buggy. Also 2.6.27 has been chosen to be a long-term supported kernel upstream. This means we can leave F9 and F10 on .27 and concentrate on getting .29 into shape for F10 and F11. With the extra resources available from not trying to fix up .28 we can make .29

Re: config changes

2009-01-12 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:45:11 -0500 Bill Nottingham nott...@redhat.com wrote: Here's some proposed config changes. -CONFIG_HAMRADIO=y +# CONFIG_HAMRADIO is not set hamradio was enabled because of user request. ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list

Re: [Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: fix regression, sysfs symlink missing]

2008-10-15 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:39:55 -0400 Doug Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, meant to include the BZ in the original email. It has been reported at least once. I have heard from several co-workers back in HP that have been blocked by this.

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: rpms/kernel/devel kernel.spec, 1.1006, 1.1007]

2008-10-07 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 13:20:29 -0700 (PDT) Roland McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's this about? Just reducing the time it takes to do 'make prep' when the next stable update is released. The patches are so small it doesn't make sense to untar the kernel and apply the stable update every

Re: de-modularising for the win!

2008-10-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:10:35 +0200 Thorsten Leemhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The alsa-project is a good example. Say you purchase a new motherboard and it has a brand new audio codec that is not yet supported by the in-kernel drivers. You report that to the alsa-project and they develop

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: adding --with firmware --without vdso_install build options

2008-08-05 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Kyle McMartin wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:01:17AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 05 August 2008 09:24:10 Steve Dickson wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: Steve Dickson wrote: Now that devel kernels rpms require the kernel-firmware rpm, it makes sense to me that one should be able

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: adding --with firmware --without vdso_install build options

2008-08-05 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Kyle McMartin wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:19:07PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: That's what it does. It includes all firmware, even for drivers that don't get built. Look in firmware/Makefile and you'll see it builds lists named fw-shipped-y, fw-shipped-m and fw-shipped- then just merges

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: adding --with firmware --without vdso_install build options

2008-08-05 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Steve Dickson wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: Steve Dickson wrote: Now that devel kernels rpms require the kernel-firmware rpm, it makes sense to me that one should be able to build both of them at the same time. So this patch adds the --with firmware build option which will allow kernel-firmware

Re: When will we stop shipping WLAN improvements ahead of upstream in released Fedora version?

2008-08-05 Thread Chuck Ebbert
John W. Linville wrote: I still think that for continuity's sake f8 and f9 should continue to get wireless fixes from 2.6.27. Those should only be specific bug fixes (although I suppose there is still time for a new driver), so hopefully the nattering nabobs won't be opposed to continuing with

Re: perfmon2 on fedora kernels

2008-07-31 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Ted Sume Nzuonkwelle wrote: Hi, My apologies if this is going to the wrong mailing list. Is there an easy way to enable support for perfmon2 in the fedora 9 kernel(s)? Looks like the patch for perfmon2 available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/perfmon2/ is only useful if patching a

Re: [PATCH] kernel.spec: adding --with firmware --without vdso_install build options

2008-07-31 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Steve Dickson wrote: Now that devel kernels rpms require the kernel-firmware rpm, it makes sense to me that one should be able to build both of them at the same time. So this patch adds the --with firmware build option which will allow kernel-firmware rpms to built with kernel rpms. This

Re: Self Introduction: Hans de Goede

2008-03-31 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 03/28/2008 05:44 PM, Hans de Goede wrote: Hi All, I'm a Linux enthusiast / developer. Lately I'm mainly active doing development for Fedora and writing kernel drivers (and as my day job I'm a lecturer in Computer Science). Fedora has a policy of not shipping a heavily patched kernel,

Re: Disable CONFIG_ACPI_SYSFS_POWER?

2008-02-17 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 02/16/2008 06:53 AM, drago01 wrote: Hi, I tested the kernel-2.6.24.2-3.fc8 (downloaded the x86_64 build directly) on my laptop. Hal detects two batteries because it looks in sysfs and in procfs for the battery info. I tryed to apply the patch from the hal-list which causes hal to not look

Fedora kernel build failure: *** ERROR: same build ID in nonidentical files!

2008-02-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Could this be yet another problem caused by the switch to GCC 4.3? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=389458name=build.log + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id -p '/.*/2.6.24-14.fc9(-ppc)?/.*|/.*2.6.24-14.fc9' -o debuginfo.list -p

Re: Fedora kernel build failure: *** ERROR: same build ID in nonidentical files!

2008-02-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 02/01/2008 02:00 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Could this be yet another problem caused by the switch to GCC 4.3? http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=389458name=build.log + /usr/lib/rpm/find-debuginfo.sh --strict-build-id -p '/.*/2.6.24-14.fc9(-ppc)?/.*|/.*2.6.24-14.fc9' -o

Re: Fedora kernel build failure: *** ERROR: same build ID in nonidentical files!

2008-02-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 02/01/2008 04:22 PM, Roland McGrath wrote: Oh wait, the copied not linked warning probaby explains the whole thing. The /usr/lib/debug copy is not stripped, so it's not identical. Yeah, ok. I wonder why this wasn't happening before. Maybe the compiler is adding some new section type that

Re: Kernel build fails with GCC 4.3

2008-02-01 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 02/01/2008 05:17 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:06:29 +0100, Chuck Ebbert wrote: ... And, after fixing that one we get (on ppc): *** ERROR: same build ID in nonidentical files! /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.24-14.fc9/vmlinux and /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-14.fc9

Re: Fwd: Re: rawhide report: 20080130 changes

2008-01-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 01/30/2008 03:54 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 03:47:26 pm Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 02:55:08 pm Jarod Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 January 2008 02:17:17 pm Roland McGrath wrote: Roland, I don't suppose any of the recent changes I seem to

Re: RFC: Minor specfile rework for rawhide

2008-01-22 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 01/22/2008 01:47 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote: awk '/^Patch.*:/ { print $1 %{_sourcedir}/$2 }' %{_specdir}/%{name}.spec | while read num patch ; do optfield=$( echo $num | cut -f 1 -d : | tr [:lower:] [:upper:] )_OPTS opts=$( cat %{_specdir}/%{name}.spec | grep ^${optfield} | cut -f 2 -d

Re: UVESAFB in kernel 2.6.24

2008-01-08 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 01/08/2008 09:30 AM, Mark wrote: Hey, I just downloaded and installed the latest kernel rpm from koji [1] but found out that uvesafb isn't enabled in the fedora kernels. Could a kernel maintainer put the following value in the config-generc: CONFIG_FB_UVESA=y so that uvesafb is

Re: i686 build on x86_64 fails

2007-11-28 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 11/28/2007 03:29 AM, Pete Zaitcev wrote: It's not important why stubs-32.h does not exist in glibc-headers. stubs-32.h is in glibc-devel on Fedora 6 and was apparently removed sometime after that. ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list

Adding a pointrelease option to the spec

2007-11-13 Thread Chuck Ebbert
This might be useful for people building their own kernels: --- kernel.spec 12 Nov 2007 22:05:50 - 1.237 +++ kernel.spec 13 Nov 2007 17:05:39 - @@ -12,7 +12,16 @@ # that the kernel isn't the stock distribution kernel, for example, # by setting the define to .local or .bz123456 #

Re: install System.map in kernel-devel

2007-10-23 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 10/23/2007 06:28 PM, Dave Jones wrote: Are the addresses in System.map accurate? On the F7 2.6.23 kernel, I had to subtract 0x40 and add 0x100 to the address in an oops message to get an address to use with eu-addr2line. Relocatable kernel is another thing that really screws

Building a kernel --without debuginfo is kind of broken

2007-10-18 Thread Chuck Ebbert
I got a 160MB kernel package and discovered that the kernel and modules contained debug info. This seems to fix it, does anyone see a problem with it? make -s mrproper cp configs/$Config .config +%if !%{with_debuginfo} +perl -p -i -e 's/^CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y$/#

Re: Vacation

2007-10-17 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 10/17/2007 10:30 AM, Christopher Brown wrote: Hi folks, As per http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Vacation I'm away for a little under a month from tomorrow, pretty much out of contact. I have been through most of the Fedora 7 kernel bugs and will resume these duties on my return. I hope I

Enabling Secure Computing (SECCOMP)

2007-09-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
We have a bug report requesting that we enable SECCOMP: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=295841 I suggest we enable it in Fedora 8 but leave it disabled in F7. That way we're not changing a config item in a stable release, and we don't have to carry patches to lower the feature's

MSI and MMCONFIG, again...

2007-08-08 Thread Chuck Ebbert
We are still hitting problems with MSI (and probably mmconfig) with kernel 2.6.22: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249469 Should we just go back to disabling these by default? ___ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list

Re: kqemu inclusion in kernel

2007-08-02 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 08/02/2007 02:20 PM, dragoran wrote: well but kqemu seems not to break that often I just recompile it after each kernel release and it just works. the code might be big but it does not depend on (fast) changing interfaces. Maybe I missed the earlier discussions, but just what does kqemu

Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?

2007-07-26 Thread Chuck Ebbert
The arcmsr driver is in-kernel but you can't install to a system using it for the main disk controller: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249647 Ditto for the uli526x network driver, network installs are impossible on systems using that:

Kernel Prerequisites?

2007-07-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=249587 Some users need mdadm to build an initrd. Others might need a new release of cpuspeed (if they use it.) We don't require those packages because not all users will need them, AFAICT -- it depends on what features they use. Should we

Re: cpuspeed und cpuidle

2007-07-11 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 07/11/2007 12:35 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote: Cpuspeed afaics needs an adjustment if cpuidle stays: $ LC_ALL=C sudo /etc/init.d/cpuspeed restart Disabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling: /etc/init.d/cpuspeed: line 212: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/cpufreq/scaling_governor: No such

Re: how kernel distinguish threads

2007-07-09 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 07/09/2007 06:29 PM, Feng Xian wrote: Hi, I am working on a project about reducing page faults of multi-threaded programs. I am using latest Fedora core (Linux 2.6) and pthread library. In this project, each user-level thread (created by pthread_create() function) needs to pass a value to

Re: Removing atomic.h from Fedora kernel headers

2007-06-25 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/24/2007 03:25 PM, David Woodhouse wrote: On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 16:36 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Why do we explicitly remove atomic.h from our kernel header package? No reason any more. Once upon a time, before the cleanup of the upstream kernel's exports was complete, we needed

Re: kmods poll

2007-06-20 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/20/2007 11:12 AM, Josh Boyer wrote: And if it isn't good enough for upstream to ship and support, why in $DEITY's name would we want to ship it, again? *cough* squashfs *cough cough* wireless-dev *cough* CFS *cough hack* xen *cough* ... exec-shield

CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND

2007-06-19 Thread Chuck Ebbert
[https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239507] (In reply to comment #5) We can do two things 1. Rebuild the RPM carefuly with CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND disabled, but without changing anything else, see if that helps, and I think we need this anyway. There are devices that require

Re: F7 redux, and the road to F8.

2007-06-07 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 06/07/2007 03:39 PM, Bill Nottingham wrote: Xen. This might get interesting to watch for F8 if XenU gets upstream (Which akpm seems to suggest it might). Given we've decoupled kernel/kernel-xen, we might want to just disable the upstream variant until F9, and wait until we have

Re: Make pci=nomsi the default on 2.6.20 kernels?

2007-04-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Dave Jones wrote: Gets my vote too. I've turned off CONFIG_PCI_MSI and turned it back on about 2-3 times now for FC5/FC6, because each time it starts to look more promising, it seems to find new ways to regress. I might do a build next week in rawhide with it off again

Putting the full unstripped modules in the kernel-debuginfo package

2007-04-02 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Right now we package the debuginfo so it contains only the DWARF debug information, but some utilities can't work with that. If we put the full modules with debug info in the package then everything should work, at the cost of making the package about 14MB larger. Is there any reason not to do

Re: Putting the full unstripped modules in the kernel-debuginfo package

2007-04-02 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Josh Boyer wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:05 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: Right now we package the debuginfo so it contains only the DWARF debug information, but some utilities can't work with that. If we put the full modules with debug info in the package then everything should work

Re: Backwards compatible module symlinks

2007-03-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Jon Masters wrote: Chuck Ebbert wrote: At first glance it doesn't seem very hard to do something like this on kernel install: ln -s raid456.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid4.ko ln -s raid456.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2933.fc6/kernel/drivers/md/raid5.ko ln -s raid456

Re: Needed: An easier way to build a subset of kernel packages

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Jarod Wilson wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:06:58PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 01:41:45PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: I was thinking about adding something like this to the .spec file at the beginning

Qlogic firmware isn't in the FC7 kernel

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Apparently the qlogic drivers don't have any firmware included in FC7, so nobody can actually use a qlogic adapter. Should we be patching the kernel like in FC6 or do we need a separate package? Or maybe the firmware goes in the kernel package? Peter says the support for Anaconda / mkinitrd to

Re: rpms for vanilla kernel builds ...

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Clinton Lee Taylor wrote: Greetings ... I for one would like to vote for rpms of vanilla kernel build! I have an Adaptec ASR-3410S, which is an i2o device, but since 2.6.18-1.2869.fc6, I can't use it and the i2o maintaner suggests I try a vanilla kernel build to see if it's an FC kernel