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The latest kernel status update in available at:
           http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

This week, a new entry for the Serial ATA work being done
by Andre Hedrick and planned for Q3, as well as new URLs 
for the device model and the cpufreq projects.

Also, a big thanks to everyone who has contributed feedback
to make the status pages better in the last couple months, 
as well as the nice folks at kernelnewbies.org for providing 
the hosting.

With more than 30,000 page views in May, it has become quite
popular in the Linux community and beyond -- one more reason 
to make sure your project is accurately listed!
In short: feedback always welcome :-)

Enjoy!

-- Guillaume


-------------------------------------------
Kernel 2.5 status  -  June 5th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.20)


Features:

Merged
o in 2.5.1+   Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer             (Jens Axboe)
o in 2.5.2    Initial support for USB 2.0                     (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.)
o in 2.5.2    Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups      (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul)
o in 2.5.2+   New scheduler for improved scalability          (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.2+   New kernel device structure (kdev_t)            (Linus Torvalds, etc.)
o in 2.5.3    IDE layer update                                (Andre Hedrick)
o in 2.5.3    Support reiserfs external journal               (Reiserfs team)
o in 2.5.3    Generic ACL (Access Control List) support       (Nathan Scott)
o in 2.5.3    PnP BIOS driver                                 (Alan Cox, Thomas Hood, Dave Jones, etc.)
o in 2.5.3+   New driver model & unified device tree          (Patrick Mochel)
o in 2.5.4    Add preempt kernel option                       (Robert Love, MontaVista team)
o in 2.5.4    Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading     (NGPT team)
o in 2.5.4+   Porting all input devices over to input API     (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
o in 2.5.5    Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)    (ALSA team)
o in 2.5.5    Pagetables in highmem support                   (Ingo Molnar, Arjan van de Ven)
o in 2.5.5    New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64)           (Andi Kleen, x86-64 Linux team)
o in 2.5.5    New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64)        (Anton Blanchard, ppc64 team)
o in 2.5.5+   IDE subsystem major cleanup                     (Martin Dalecki, Vojtech Pavlik)
o in 2.5.6    Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM)        (JFS team)
o in 2.5.6    per_cpu infrastructure                          (Rusty Russell)
o in 2.5.6    HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update      (Krzysztof Halasa)
o in 2.5.6    smbfs Unicode and large file support            (Urban Widmark) 
o in 2.5.7    New driver API for Wireless Extensions          (Jean Tourrilhes)
o in 2.5.7    Video for Linux (V4L) redesign                  (Gerd Knorr)
o in 2.5.7    Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) (Rusty Russell, etc.)
o in 2.5.7+   NAPI network interrupt mitigation               (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
o in 2.5.7+   ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover, ACPI team)
o in 2.5.8    Syscall interface for CPU task affinity         (Robert Love)
o in 2.5.8    Radix-tree pagecache                            (Momchil Velikov, Christoph Hellwig)
o in 2.5.8+   Delayed disk block allocation                   (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.9    Smarter IRQ balancing                           (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.11   Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver    (Anton Altaparmakov)
o in 2.5.11   Fast walk dcache                                (Hanna Linder)
o in 2.5.11+  Rewrite of the framebuffer layer                (James Simmons)
o in 2.5.12+  Rewrite of the buffer layer                     (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.14   Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing)   (Jens Axboe)
o in 2.5.14   Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!)     (Maxim Krasnyansky, Bluetooth team)
o in 2.5.17   New quota system supporting plugins             (Jan Kara)
o in 2.5.17+  Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface         (Kai Germaschewski, ISDN4Linux team)
o in 2.5.18   Software suspend (to disk & RAM)                (Pavel Machek)

o in -dj      Rewrite of the console layer                    (James Simmons)
o in -dj      New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver    (Patrick Mochel)
o in -ac      Strict address space accounting                 (Alan Cox)
o in -ac      PCMCIA Zoom video support                       (Alan Cox)
o in -ac      More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o in -ac      More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in -ac      Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling       (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
o in -ac      Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)

o Ready       Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
o Ready       Linux booting ELF images                        (Eric Biederman)
o Ready       First pass at LinuxBIOS support                 (Eric Biederman)
o Ready       Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)      (Karim Yaghmour)
o Ready       New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)            (Keith Owens)
o Ready       Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion               (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o Ready       USB gadget support                              (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)

o Beta        Serial driver restructure                       (Russell King)
o Beta        New IO scheduler                                (Jens Axboe)
o Beta        Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)      (XFS team)
o Beta        New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)
o Beta        Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency  (Andrew Morton, Robert Love, etc.)
o Beta        Add Linux Security Module (LSM)                 (LSM team)
o Beta        Hotplug CPU support                             (Rusty Russell)
o Beta        Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro)
o Beta        EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)      (EVMS team)
o Beta        LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0               (LVM team)
o Beta        Dynamic Probes                                  (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Beta        Scalable CPU bitmasks                           (Russ Weight)
o Beta        Page table sharing                              (Daniel Phillips)
o Beta        ext2/ext3 online resize support                 (Andreas Dilger)
o Beta        Add User-Mode Linux (UML)                       (Jeff Dike)
o Beta        UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)
o Beta        Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
o Beta        New kernel config system: CML2                  (Eric Raymond)
o Beta        Asynchronous IO (aio) support                   (Ben LaHaise)

o Alpha       Better support of high-end NUMA machines        (NUMA team)
o Alpha       Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Alpha       Full compliance with IPv6                       (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o Alpha       UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite              (Al Viro)
o Alpha       Scalable Statistics Counter                     (Ravikiran Thirumalai)
o Alpha       Linux Kernel Crash Dumps                        (Matt Robinson, LKCD team)
o Alpha       Add support for NFS v4                          (NFS v4 team)
o Alpha       ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index  (Daniel Phillips, Christopher Li, Ted Ts'o)
o Alpha       Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock)         (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, Dave Hansen, etc.)
o Alpha       Zerocopy NFS                                    (Hirokazu Takahashi)

o Started     Change all drivers to new driver model          (All maintainers)
o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O               (Andrew Morton)
* Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)

o Draft #2    New lightweight library (klibc)                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Draft #3    Replace initrd by initramfs                     (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Planning    Add thrashing control                           (Rik van Riel)
o Planning    Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel        (Alan Cox, etc.)
o Planning    Generic parameter/command line interface        (Keith Owens)
o Planning    New mount API                                   (Al Viro)
o Planning    Implement new device naming convention          (Device naming team)
o Planning    InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)

Cleanups:

Merged
o in 2.5.3    Break Configure.help into multiple files        (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.3    Untangle sched.h & fs.h include dependancies    (Dave Jones, Roman Zippel)
o in 2.5.4    Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h         (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o in 2.5.4    Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h                 (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik, Al Viro)
o in 2.5.6    Killing kdev_t for block devices                (Al Viro)
o in 2.5.18+  ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes  (Al Viro)

o in -dj      Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces      (Patrick Mochel)

o Ready       Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type    (Al Viro)

o Beta        file.h and INIT_TASK                            (Benjamin LaHaise)
o Beta        Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups     (Al Viro)
o Beta        Lifting limitations on mount(2)                 (Al Viro)
o Beta        Remove dcache_lock                              (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)

o Started     Reorder x86 initialization                      (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)

Have some free time and want to help?  Check out the Kernel Janitor 
TO DO list for a list of source code cleanups you can work on.  
A great place to start learning more about kernel internals!

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From: "Guillaume Boissiere" <boissi...@adiglobal.com>
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Date: 	Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:15:53 -0400
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The meaningless stat of the week: 50% of the listed 2.5 kernel 
features (48 out of 96) are merged or are in Alan or Dave's tree.

Hyperlinks to project pages and changes since June 5th are at:
  http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

Cheers,

-- Guillaume


-------------------------------------------------
Kernel 2.5 status  -  June 12th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.21)


Features:

Merged
o in 2.5.1+   Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer             (Jens Axboe)
o in 2.5.2    Initial support for USB 2.0                     (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.)
o in 2.5.2    Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups      (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul)
o in 2.5.2+   New scheduler for improved scalability          (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.2+   New kernel device structure (kdev_t)            (Linus Torvalds, etc.)
o in 2.5.3    IDE layer update                                (Andre Hedrick)
o in 2.5.3    Support reiserfs external journal               (Reiserfs team)
o in 2.5.3    Generic ACL (Access Control List) support       (Nathan Scott)
o in 2.5.3    PnP BIOS driver                                 (Alan Cox, Thomas Hood, Dave Jones, etc.)
o in 2.5.3+   New driver model & unified device tree          (Patrick Mochel)
o in 2.5.4    Add preempt kernel option                       (Robert Love, MontaVista team)
o in 2.5.4    Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading     (NGPT team)
o in 2.5.4+   Porting all input devices over to input API     (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
o in 2.5.5    Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)    (ALSA team)
o in 2.5.5    Pagetables in highmem support                   (Ingo Molnar, Arjan van de Ven)
o in 2.5.5    New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64)           (Andi Kleen, x86-64 Linux team)
o in 2.5.5    New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64)        (Anton Blanchard, ppc64 team)
o in 2.5.5+   IDE subsystem rewrite                           (Martin Dalecki)
o in 2.5.6    Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM)        (JFS team)
o in 2.5.6    per_cpu infrastructure                          (Rusty Russell)
o in 2.5.6    HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update      (Krzysztof Halasa)
o in 2.5.6    smbfs Unicode and large file support            (Urban Widmark) 
o in 2.5.7    New driver API for Wireless Extensions          (Jean Tourrilhes)
o in 2.5.7    Video for Linux (V4L) redesign                  (Gerd Knorr)
o in 2.5.7    Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) (Rusty Russell, etc.)
o in 2.5.7+   NAPI network interrupt mitigation               (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
o in 2.5.7+   ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover, ACPI team)
o in 2.5.8    Syscall interface for CPU task affinity         (Robert Love)
o in 2.5.8    Radix-tree pagecache                            (Momchil Velikov, Christoph Hellwig)
o in 2.5.8+   Delayed disk block allocation                   (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.9    Smarter IRQ balancing                           (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.11   Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver    (Anton Altaparmakov)
o in 2.5.11   Fast walk dcache                                (Hanna Linder)
o in 2.5.11+  Rewrite of the framebuffer layer                (James Simmons)
o in 2.5.12+  Rewrite of the buffer layer                     (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.14   Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing)   (Jens Axboe)
o in 2.5.14   Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!)     (Maxim Krasnyansky, Bluetooth team)
o in 2.5.17   New quota system supporting plugins             (Jan Kara)
o in 2.5.17+  Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface         (Kai Germaschewski, ISDN4Linux team)
o in 2.5.18   Software suspend (to disk & RAM)                (Pavel Machek)

o in -dj      Rewrite of the console layer                    (James Simmons)
o in -dj      New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver    (Patrick Mochel)
o in -dj      Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling       (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
o in -ac      Strict address space accounting                 (Alan Cox)
o in -ac      PCMCIA Zoom video support                       (Alan Cox)
o in -ac      More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o in -ac      More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in -ac      Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)

o Ready       Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
o Ready       Linux booting ELF images                        (Eric Biederman)
o Ready       First pass at LinuxBIOS support                 (Eric Biederman)
o Ready       Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)      (Karim Yaghmour)
o Ready       New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)            (Keith Owens)
o Ready       Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion               (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o Ready       USB gadget support                              (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Ready       Scalable CPU bitmasks                           (Russ Weight)
o Ready       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)

o Beta        Serial driver restructure                       (Russell King)
o Beta        New IO scheduler                                (Jens Axboe)
o Beta        Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)      (XFS team)
o Beta        New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)
o Beta        Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency  (Andrew Morton, Robert Love, etc.)
o Beta        Add Linux Security Module (LSM)                 (LSM team)
o Beta        Hotplug CPU support                             (Rusty Russell)
o Beta        Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro)
o Beta        EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)      (EVMS team)
o Beta        LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0               (LVM team)
o Beta        Dynamic Probes                                  (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Beta        Page table sharing                              (Daniel Phillips)
o Beta        ext2/ext3 online resize support                 (Andreas Dilger)
o Beta        Add User-Mode Linux (UML)                       (Jeff Dike)
o Beta        UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)
o Beta        New kernel config system: CML2                  (Eric Raymond)
o Beta        Asynchronous IO (aio) support                   (Ben LaHaise)

o Alpha       Better support of high-end NUMA machines        (NUMA team)
o Alpha       Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Alpha       Full compliance with IPv6                       (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o Alpha       UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite              (Al Viro)
o Alpha       Scalable Statistics Counter                     (Ravikiran Thirumalai)
o Alpha       Linux Kernel Crash Dumps                        (Matt Robinson, LKCD team)
o Alpha       Add support for NFS v4                          (NFS v4 team)
o Alpha       ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index  (Daniel Phillips, Christopher Li, Ted Ts'o)
o Alpha       Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock)         (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, Dave Hansen, etc.)
o Alpha       Zerocopy NFS                                    (Hirokazu Takahashi)

o Started     Change all drivers to new driver model          (All maintainers)
o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O               (Andrew Morton)
o Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)

o Draft #2    New lightweight library (klibc)                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Draft #3    Replace initrd by initramfs                     (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Planning    Add thrashing control                           (Rik van Riel)
o Planning    Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel        (Alan Cox, etc.)
o Planning    Generic parameter/command line interface        (Keith Owens)
o Planning    New mount API                                   (Al Viro)
o Planning    Implement new device naming convention          (Device naming team)
o Planning    InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)

Cleanups:

Merged
o in 2.5.3    Break Configure.help into multiple files        (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.3    Untangle sched.h & fs.h include dependancies    (Dave Jones, Roman Zippel)
o in 2.5.4    Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h         (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o in 2.5.4    Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h                 (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik, Al Viro)
o in 2.5.6    Killing kdev_t for block devices                (Al Viro)
o in 2.5.18+  ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes  (Al Viro)
o in 2.5.21   Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces      (Patrick Mochel)

o Ready       Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type    (Al Viro)

o Beta        file.h and INIT_TASK                            (Benjamin LaHaise)
o Beta        Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups     (Al Viro)
o Beta        Lifting limitations on mount(2)                 (Al Viro)
o Beta        Remove dcache_lock                              (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)

o Started     Reorder x86 initialization                      (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)

Have some free time and want to help?  Check out the Kernel Janitor 
TO DO list for a list of source code cleanups you can work on.  
A great place to start learning more about kernel internals!

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From: "Guillaume Boissiere" <boissi...@adiglobal.com>
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With the kernel summit next week in Ottawa, I figured I would look back
on the last six months of development.  Much has happened!

Of the items that were discussed at the last Kernel Summit and are being
taken care of (most still need more work but the bulk is there):
- Block IO: merged
- NAPI: merged
- LDM & driverfs: merged
- ACPI: merged
- hotplug: merged

Among the most 'important & not yet merged' items - at least the ones I
have received the most requests about from people :-)
- kbuild 2.5: should be integrated soon in pieces
- AIO: some pieces are just starting to get merged
- VM: not merged
- LSM: not merged
- XFS: not merged
- initramfs: not merged

As usual, the URL with the details is http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/
Enjoy!

-- Guillaume


-----------------------------------
Linux Kernel 2.5 Status  -  June 19th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.23)


Features:

Merged
o in 2.5.1+   Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer             (Jens Axboe)
o in 2.5.2    Initial support for USB 2.0                     (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.)
o in 2.5.2    Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups      (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul)
o in 2.5.2+   New scheduler for improved scalability          (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.2+   New kernel device structure (kdev_t)            (Linus Torvalds, etc.)
o in 2.5.3    IDE layer update                                (Andre Hedrick)
o in 2.5.3    Support reiserfs external journal               (Reiserfs team)
o in 2.5.3    Generic ACL (Access Control List) support       (Nathan Scott)
o in 2.5.3    PnP BIOS driver                                 (Alan Cox, Thomas Hood, Dave Jones, etc.)
o in 2.5.3+   New driver model & unified device tree          (Patrick Mochel)
o in 2.5.4    Add preempt kernel option                       (Robert Love, MontaVista team)
o in 2.5.4    Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading     (NGPT team)
o in 2.5.4+   Porting all input devices over to input API     (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
o in 2.5.5    Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)    (ALSA team)
o in 2.5.5    Pagetables in highmem support                   (Ingo Molnar, Arjan van de Ven)
o in 2.5.5    New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64)           (Andi Kleen, x86-64 Linux team)
o in 2.5.5    New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64)        (Anton Blanchard, ppc64 team)
o in 2.5.5+   IDE subsystem rewrite                           (Martin Dalecki)
o in 2.5.6    Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM)        (JFS team)
o in 2.5.6    per_cpu infrastructure                          (Rusty Russell)
o in 2.5.6    HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update      (Krzysztof Halasa)
o in 2.5.6    smbfs Unicode and large file support            (Urban Widmark) 
o in 2.5.7    New driver API for Wireless Extensions          (Jean Tourrilhes)
o in 2.5.7    Video for Linux (V4L) redesign                  (Gerd Knorr)
o in 2.5.7    Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) (Rusty Russell, etc.)
o in 2.5.7+   NAPI network interrupt mitigation               (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
o in 2.5.7+   ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover, ACPI team)
o in 2.5.8    Syscall interface for CPU task affinity         (Robert Love)
o in 2.5.8    Radix-tree pagecache                            (Momchil Velikov, Christoph Hellwig)
o in 2.5.8+   Delayed disk block allocation                   (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.9    Smarter IRQ balancing                           (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.11   Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver    (Anton Altaparmakov)
o in 2.5.11   Fast walk dcache                                (Hanna Linder)
o in 2.5.11+  Rewrite of the framebuffer layer                (James Simmons)
o in 2.5.12+  Rewrite of the buffer layer                     (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.14   Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing)   (Jens Axboe)
o in 2.5.14   Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!)     (Maxim Krasnyansky, Bluetooth team)
o in 2.5.17   New quota system supporting plugins             (Jan Kara)
o in 2.5.17+  Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface         (Kai Germaschewski, ISDN4Linux team)
o in 2.5.18   Software suspend (to disk & RAM)                (Pavel Machek)
o in 2.5.23+  Hotplug CPU support                             (Rusty Russell)

o in -dj      Rewrite of the console layer                    (James Simmons)
o in -dj      New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver    (Patrick Mochel)
o in -dj      Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling       (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
o in -ac      Strict address space accounting                 (Alan Cox)
o in -ac      PCMCIA Zoom video support                       (Alan Cox)
o in -ac      More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o in -ac      More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in -ac      Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)

o Ready       Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
o Ready       Linux booting ELF images                        (Eric Biederman)
o Ready       First pass at LinuxBIOS support                 (Eric Biederman)
o Ready       Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)      (Karim Yaghmour)
o Ready       New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)            (Keith Owens)
o Ready       Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion               (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o Ready       USB gadget support                              (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Ready       Scalable CPU bitmasks                           (Russ Weight)
o Ready       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)

o Beta        Serial driver restructure                       (Russell King)
o Beta        New IO scheduler                                (Jens Axboe)
o Beta        Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)      (XFS team)
o Beta        New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)
o Beta        Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency  (Andrew Morton, Robert Love, etc.)
o Beta        Add Linux Security Module (LSM)                 (LSM team)
o Beta        Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro)
o Beta        EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)      (EVMS team)
o Beta        LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0               (LVM team)
o Beta        Dynamic Probes                                  (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Beta        Page table sharing                              (Daniel Phillips)
o Beta        ext2/ext3 online resize support                 (Andreas Dilger)
o Beta        Add User-Mode Linux (UML)                       (Jeff Dike)
o Beta        UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)
o Beta        Asynchronous IO (aio) support                   (Ben LaHaise)
o Beta        Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O               (Andrew Morton)

o Alpha       Better support of high-end NUMA machines        (NUMA team)
o Alpha       Full compliance with IPv6                       (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o Alpha       UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite              (Al Viro)
o Alpha       Scalable Statistics Counter                     (Ravikiran Thirumalai)
o Alpha       Linux Kernel Crash Dumps                        (Matt Robinson, LKCD team)
o Alpha       Add support for NFS v4                          (NFS v4 team)
o Alpha       ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index  (Daniel Phillips, Christopher Li, Ted Ts'o)
o Alpha       Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock)         (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, Dave Hansen, etc.)
o Alpha       Zerocopy NFS                                    (Hirokazu Takahashi)
o Alpha       Change all drivers to new driver model          (All maintainers)

o Started     Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)

o Draft #2    New lightweight library (klibc)                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Draft #3    Replace initrd by initramfs                     (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Planning    Add thrashing control                           (Rik van Riel)
o Planning    Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel        (Alan Cox, etc.)
o Planning    Generic parameter/command line interface        (Keith Owens)
o Planning    New mount API                                   (Al Viro)
o Planning    InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)


Cleanups:

Merged
o in 2.5.3    Break Configure.help into multiple files        (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.3    Untangle sched.h & fs.h include dependancies    (Dave Jones, Roman Zippel)
o in 2.5.4    Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h         (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o in 2.5.4    Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h                 (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik, Al Viro)
o in 2.5.6    Killing kdev_t for block devices                (Al Viro)
o in 2.5.18+  ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes  (Al Viro)
o in 2.5.21   Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces      (Patrick Mochel)
o in 2.5.23+  Major MD tool (RAID 5) cleanup                  (Neil Brown)

o Ready       Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type    (Al Viro)

o Beta        file.h and INIT_TASK                            (Benjamin LaHaise)
o Beta        Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups     (Al Viro)
o Beta        Lifting limitations on mount(2)                 (Al Viro)
o Beta        Remove dcache_lock                              (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)

o Started     Reorder x86 initialization                      (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)

Have some free time and want to help?  Check out the Kernel Janitor 
TO DO list for a list of source code cleanups you can work on.  
A great place to start learning more about kernel internals!




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This week's kernel status update is available for general consumption at
  http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

With the kernel summit and OLS this week, expect some changes to the 
feature list in the near future.  Feedback welcome for discussion!

Oh, and since feature freeze is apparently for Halloween 2002 (October 31), 
that makes it only 127 days left to get your pet project in...  ;-)

Enjoy!

-- Guillaume
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