My Digital Contribution

Just a quick note that I am walking the patch for CVE-2016-8655 down the gentoo-sources kernels. Yesterday, I released the following kernels with the patch backported: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.8.12-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.4.36 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.1.36-r1 Updated: 12/08 Also patched: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.18.45-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.12.68-r1 Updated 12/09 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.10.104-r1 sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.113-r1 Updated…
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As per upstream developers instructions to Fedora maintainers [1] , kdbus will not be included in any new gentoo-sources genpatches release. Of course, I will revisit when upstream feels it’s ready to be tested in distributions once again. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/663062/

  Keeping with the theme of ‘Gentoo is about choice” I’ve added the ability for users to include kdbus into their gentoo-sources kernel.  I wanted an easy way for gentoo users to test the patchset while maintaining the default installation…
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Contrary to some articles you may read on the internet, NetFlix is working great on Gentoo. Here’s a snap shot of my system running 3.12.30-gentoo sources and google chrome version 39.0.2171.19_p1.   $ equery l google-chrome-beta * Searching for google-chrome-beta…
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I did a minor bump to fix a compile error for the fbcondecor patch. If you don’t use fbcondecor,  there is no need to upgrade. That is the only change.

Summary Team members working alongside upstream (and downstream) developer Greg k-h have decided to no longer request stabilization of the vanilla sources kernel. Team members and arch teams (understandably) are unable to keep up with the 1-2 weekly kernel releases…
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I am trying to get 4-5 signed-off-by people on a small patch for a python script that lives in the scripts directory of the kernel source. If a handful of people from the python team or who others who really…
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Many years ago, the Gentoo kernel lead asked for help.  2 people responded.  I was one of them.  So I figured if I got 2-3 people and one stuck around, I would be in good shape. This time, I got…
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Once again, the Gentoo Source kernel team is looking for one or more people to help out with Gentoo-sources maintenance. Currently, I am the sole maintainer of our primary supported kernel and from the email complaints I have been receiving lately,…
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Seems the patch I committed for the fix was corrupted.  So, I am rebuilding and releasing kernels for 3.2 , 3.1 and 3.0. Thanks for wired for pointing this out.  I will be removing the ones from yesterday. The following…
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