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Re: 2.6.15 was released upstream ...



Forgot to CC ftp-masters, ... i hope the address is correct and it reaches
them :)

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:07:09AM +0100, sven wrote:
> Hi ...
> 
> As you may have noticed, 2.6.15 was released upstream this night, and i did
> prepare debian source packages at :
> 
>   http://people.debian.org/~luther/2.6.15
> 
> Which i am building now and which should be uploadable at around noon,
> provided someone with a fast box doesn't beat me to it.
> 
> They will still need NEW processing, which is why i am CCing ftp-masters,
> since it would be nice if these packages could be NEW processed before
> dinstall today.
> 
> There apparently wasn't any kconfig change since -rc7, so this should build
> straightforwardly for all arches that built previously, which are everyone
> except m68k which will be readied post 2.6.15, as usual.
> 
> I have removed the experimental entries, readded the 2.6.14-[4-7] entries, and
> the changelog now looks as below, i hope this is ok.
> 
> Ok, thanks everyone again for having made things ready during the -rc phase,
> and especially to Frederik Schüler for having lead the effort this time.
> 
> Friendly,
> 
> Sven Luther
> 
> linux-2.6 (2.6.15-1) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   [ Sven Luther ]
>   * New upstream release.
> 
>   [ Bastian Blank ]
>   * [s390] Update configs.
> 
>   [ Kyle McMartin ]
>   * [hppa] Snag latest hppa.diff from cvs.parisc-linux.org.
>   * [hppa] Update configs for 2.6.15.
>   * [hppa] Change parisc kernel names to something less ambiguous.
> 
>   [ Sven Luther ]
>   * [powerpc] Now use ARCH=powerpc for 64bit powerpc flavours, 32bit still
>     stays with ARCH=ppc for now.
>   * [powerpc] Readded PReP Motorola PowerStack II Utah IDE interrupt
>     (Closes: #345424)
>   * [powerpc] Fixed apus patch.
>   * Added make-kpkg --arch option support to gencontrol.py.
>   * Added debian/bin/kconfig.ml to process config file snipplet, so we can
>     preserve the pre 2.6.15 ordering of config file snipplets. Upto 2.6.15
>     the kernel Kconfig magic apparently kept the later occuring config options,
>     but it seems that this is no more the case. Instead of catting the config
>     files together, not use the kconfig.ml script to read in the files from
>     more generic to more specific, and keep only the more specific.
> 
>   [ dann frazier ]
>   * [ia64] Update ia64 configs
> 
>   [ maximilian attems ]
>   * Drop modular-ide.patch, nacked by ide upstream.  Prevents udev to load
>     ide-generic and those successfull boots with initramfs-tools.
>   * Disable CONFIG_USB_BANDWIDTH, causes major trouble for alsa usb cards.
> 
>   [ Norbert Tretkowski ]
>   * [alpha] Removed conflict with initramfs-tools, thanks vorlon for finding
>     the klibc bug!
> 
>   [ Jonas Smedegaard ]
>   * Adjust short description of transitional package kernel-image-2.6-
>     486 to mention 2.6 (not 2.6.12).
>   * Clean duplicate Kconfig options.
> 
>   [ Frederik Schüler ]
>   * Add updated version of drivers-scsi-megaraid_splitup.patch.
>   * Deactivate CONFIG_IDE_TASK_IOCTL on alpha and ia64 and make it a global
>     option.
>   * Make CONFIG_VIDEO_SAA7134 a global option.
>   * New option CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE set per-arch.
>   * Rename i386 368 flavour to 486.
>   * Add myself to uploaders.
>   * Readdition of qla2xxx drivers, as firmware license has been fixed.
>   * Make CONFIG_PACKET, PACKET_MM and UNIX builtin on all architectures:
>     statically linked has better performance then modules due to TLB issue.
>   * clean up debian-patches dir: remove all obsolete patches:
>     - alpha-compile-fix.patch: obsolete
>     - amd64-int3-fix.patch: fixed since 2.6.12
>     - net-ipconntrack-nat-fix.patch: merged upstream after 2.6.14 release
>     - net-nf_queue-oops.patch: merged upstream after 2.6.14 release
>     - qla2xxx-removed.patch: obsolete
>   * Drop M386 support remains from the i386 386 flavour: built with M486 
>     from now on.
> 
>   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
>   * [arm] Don't define "compiler" since GCC 4.x is the default now anyway.
>   * [arm] Add descriptions for "class" and "longclass".
>   * [arm] Compile CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SL82C105 support into the kernel on
>     Footbridge.
>   * [arm] Compile ext3 support into the kernel on Footbridge.
>   * [arm] Turn on CONFIG_SERIAL_8250 support on Footbridge.
> 
>   [ Jurij Smakov ]
>   * [sparc] Correct the patch for the atyfb framebuffer driver
>     (sparc64-atyfb-xl-gr.patch) to finally fix the console and X
>     image defects on Blade 100/150. The new patch is named
>     sparc64-atyfb-xl-gr-final.patch to avoid the confusion.
>     Thanks to Luis F. Ortiz for fixing the patch and Luigi Gangitano
>     for testing it out.
>   * Drop tty-locking-fixes9.patch, which was preventing the oops during
>     shutdown on some sparc machines with serial console. Proper fix has
>     been incorporated upstream.
>   
>   [ Simon Horman ]
>   * Enable MKISS globally (closes: #340215)
>   * Add recommends libc6-i686 to 686 and k7 image packages
>     (closes: #278729)
>   * Enable OBSOLETE_OSS_USB_DRIVER and USB_AUDIO
>     as alsa snd-usb-audio still isn't quite there.
>     I expect this to be re-disabled at some stage,
>     possibly soon if it proves to be a source of bugs.
>     (closes: #340388)
> 
>  -- Sven Luther <luther@debian.org>  Tue,  3 Jan 2006 06:48:07 +0000
> 



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