Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-2

2011-03-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Fri 25-Mar-11 20:35: > Am Mittwoch 23 März 2011 schrieb Sander Jansen: > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Richard Schütz > wrote: > > > Am 22.03.2011 17:27, schrieb Richard Schütz: > > > . > > > I noticed that new X packages hit [testing] and

[arch-general] Thinkpad W510 Config: ScreenTouch

2011-03-25 Thread Bernardo Barros
Please, I'd like to know if it is possible to use ThinkPad W510 touchscreen on Linux. I see there are a bunch of kernel modules for touchscreens, but I can't find this information on the Wiki. Cheers, Bernardo

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-014-1

2011-03-25 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > Hi guys, > latest upstream release, > > please signoff both arches > greetings > tpowa signoff x86_64 I downloaded and extracted the newest firmware for my chip and it still works. -t

[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1.5-1

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, latest upstream release, - fixed CFLAGS #22437 - fixed email sending on breakage #20937 please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a dig

[arch-general] [signoff] b43-fwcutter-014-1

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, latest upstream release, please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[arch-general] [signoff] usbutils-002-1

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, latest upstream release, only bugfixes. please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-3

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, latest upstream release, please signoff both arches greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.37.5-1

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Upstream update. This package is NOT in testing (2.6.38 currently resides there), but at: http://dev.archlinux.org/~tpowa/kernel26/ please signoff for both arches. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-2

2011-03-25 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Mittwoch 23 März 2011 schrieb Sander Jansen: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Richard Schütz wrote: > > Am 22.03.2011 17:27, schrieb Richard Schütz: > >> Am 22.03.2011 15:31, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > >>> Hi guys, > >>> please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. > >>> > >>> Upstream

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread C Anthony Risinger
2011/3/25 Cédric Girard : > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: >> >> As you don't expect a server to be in desperate need of new features and >> new supported hardware I personally don't think that the latest kernel >> is needed. >> >> What do the others think about it? > > No.

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Thomas S Hatch
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Milos Negovanovic < milos.negovano...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:24:37PM +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: > > No. But what I understood from what Thomas said is: as you need to reboot > > your server anyway from time to time to apply security update

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Cédric Girard
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Milos Negovanovic < milos.negovano...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:24:37PM +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: > > No. But what I understood from what Thomas said is: as you need to reboot > > your server anyway from time to time to apply security updates

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:24:37PM +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: > No. But what I understood from what Thomas said is: as you need to reboot > your server anyway from time to time to apply security updates, you may > decide to switch to an even more often updated kernel, if your architecture > permit

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Cédric Girard
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Karol Babioch wrote: > Am 25.03.2011 16:42, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > > which is why I use the latest kernel on my > > servers and reboot them a lot becaus > > As I'm about to set up some new servers I was thinking about this in the > past few days. How does it wo

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Milos Negovanovic
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:07:19PM +0100, Karol Babioch wrote: > Am 25.03.2011 16:42, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > > which is why I use the latest kernel on my > > servers and reboot them a lot becaus > > As I'm about to set up some new servers I was thinking about this in the > past few days. How do

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Karol Babioch
Am 25.03.2011 16:42, schrieb Thomas S Hatch: > which is why I use the latest kernel on my > servers and reboot them a lot becaus As I'm about to set up some new servers I was thinking about this in the past few days. How does it work out for you? Because I don't think that rebooting is an option

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 03/25/2011 11:42 AM, Thomas S Hatch wrote: 2011/3/25 Cédric Girard On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: Just wondering: what's the general policy about how often (and why) kernel26-lts gets updated? I know it's supposed to be a "long-term supported" kernel, making

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Thomas S Hatch
2011/3/25 Cédric Girard > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, David Rosenstrauch >wrote: > > > Just wondering: what's the general policy about how often (and why) > > kernel26-lts gets updated? I know it's supposed to be a "long-term > > supported" kernel, making it more appropriate for servers a

Re: [arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread Cédric Girard
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Just wondering: what's the general policy about how often (and why) > kernel26-lts gets updated? I know it's supposed to be a "long-term > supported" kernel, making it more appropriate for servers and such. But > it seems like it gets

[arch-general] How often kernel26-lts updated?

2011-03-25 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just wondering: what's the general policy about how often (and why) kernel26-lts gets updated? I know it's supposed to be a "long-term supported" kernel, making it more appropriate for servers and such. But it seems like it gets updated almost as often as the main kernel26 package. Also, I saw

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.1-1

2011-03-25 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Tobias Powalowski's message from Fri 25-Mar-11 07:46: > Upstream > changes: > http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > > Features included: > - latest stable patches > - disabled /dev/kmem > - added AMD_IOMMU support > - kernel image is now xz compressed > - NUMA is enabled on x86_64

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38.1-1

2011-03-25 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 03/25/11 02:46, Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi guys, please signoff 2.6.38 series for both arches. It's a security update too so it would make sense, to move in .38.1 to [core] soon. Or try/upload 2.6.37.5 for those security reasons! Given the amount of hardware that I have that people report