Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> Ben Hutchings wrote: >>> Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports >>> without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant >>> breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated an

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Frans Pop
Michael Gernoth wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:51:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >> The following change in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server fixes this: >> # See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server >> -if [ -f /proc/kallsyms ] && ! grep -qE 'init_nf(sd|)' >> /proc/

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Gernoth
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:51:01AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > The following change in /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server fixes this: > # See if our running kernel supports the NFS kernel server > - if [ -f /proc/kallsyms ] && ! grep -qE 'init_nf(sd|)' > /proc/kallsyms; then

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:57 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > > on the various things mentioned in this mail? > > I have another question. The naming policy for linux-image packages seems > to have changed: instead

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 01:51 +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports > > without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant > > breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated and removed stuff > > in p

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > on the various things mentioned in this mail? I have another question. The naming policy for linux-image packages seems to have changed: instead of an ABI we now have "trunk". First I thought this was a bug,

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Ben Hutchings wrote: > Currently you can install kernel images from unstable or backports > without any extra dependencies. I'm not aware of any significant > breakage though some packages may rely on deprecated and removed stuff > in procfs or sysfs. I've been running upstream kernels without an

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 19:39 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > > > on the various things mentio

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 16:50:22 +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > The X packages will be able to use modprobe > > > config files to enable KMS at run time as required. > > This is not for the kernel team to do. > FWIW, this is done for intel in experimental, probably soon in unstable. For radeo

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:39:22PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Fedora 12, Ubuntu 9.10 and openSUSE 11.2 have this kernel version. > I was hoping that various distributions

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 04:50:22PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > > on the various things mentioned in this mail? > > > > For instance, as I understand it, most

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-22 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 01:56:05AM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > I guess oss4-dkms will be enough to take care of these users, > > hopefully it will reach squeeze in time. > Hopefully not. OSS4 on Linux is part of the problem, not part of t

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:24 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > >> > OSS > >> > --- > >> > > >> > This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be > >> > disabled for squeeze > > > > Done. > > > >> > with mechanisms put in plac

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> > OSS >> > --- >> > >> > This has been a deprecated kernel interface for some time and will be >> > disabled for squeeze > > Done. > >> > with mechanisms put in place to deal with legacy users. > > Er, not sure. I guess oss4-dkms will be

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2009-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Hi, > > Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us > on the various things mentioned in this mail? > > For instance, as I understand it, most other distro's recently > had a release with a 2.6.31 kernel? Fedora 12, Ubu

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-12-20 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, Now that we have a 2.6.32 kernel in unstable, can you updates us on the various things mentioned in this mail? For instance, as I understand it, most other distro's recently had a release with a 2.6.31 kernel? Do you know if there are plans to have a kernel with backported drivers, one used

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 07:51:20AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:54:47 +0100 > Vincent Sanders wrote: > > A constructive discussion was held about the outstanding firmware > > issues, how the team addresses them and how we might work with upstream > > to address our DSFG iss

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:54:47 +0100 Vincent Sanders wrote: > A constructive discussion was held about the outstanding firmware > issues, how the team addresses them and how we might work with upstream > to address our DSFG issues with kernel sources. By chance, did any of that discussion touch on

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-20 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 19 octobre 2009 à 22:54 +0100, Vincent Sanders a écrit : > IDE to libata decision > -- > > Debian will perform this transition using the udev packages in a > similar way to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers have offered their > assistance with this transition. When is th

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2009-10-19 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Vincent and others, On Oct 19 2009, Vincent Sanders wrote: > IDE to libata decision > -- > > Debian will perform this transition using the udev packages in a > similar way to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu developers have offered their > assistance with this transition. There are so

Re: Bits from the kernel team

2006-03-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > Half-way between the sarge release and the etch freeze the Debian kernel Aren't we closer from etch freeze than sarge release? :-) This is at least my feeling when I consider the packages and the proejcts I'm part of: we, developers, should b