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Here goes the latest kernel status update:
           http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

Of note the week is the addition to the list of SCTP, the third 
general purpose transport protocol (after TCP and UDP) from the 
IETF.  A linux kernel implementation is in the works - you can 
download an alpha version - courtesy of the lksctp team.

Anything you'd like me to add or remove from the list after the
kernel summit discussions? 
Cheers,

-- Guillaume


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Linux Kernel 2.5 Status  -  July 3rd, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.24)


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   More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
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      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 Alpha       Remove the 2TB block device limit               (Peter Chubb)
* Alpha       SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)     (lksctp team)

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

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)


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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From: "Guillaume Boissiere" <boissi...@adiglobal.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:30:08 +0200
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Check out http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/ for the latest kernel
status update.  

Many link changes this week to reflect new URLs for several projects. 
Also removed some URLs that were not very useful or pointing to patches 
through the Bitkeeper Web interface that kept changing (I think the 
Bitmover team is working on a fix - I'll put them back when that's 
done).

Finally, on the cleanup side, I am planning on removing the following
entries that have been submitted a while back and don't look like 
there are going to be accepted for inclusion anytime soon:
   - Better event logging for enterprise systems
   - Linux booting ELF images
   - First pass at LinuxBIOS support
   - Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)
   - Scalable CPU bitmasks

Also on the planned deletion list:
   - Add thrashing control
   - Generic parameter/command line interface  
   
As usual, feedback welcome!
Enjoy,

-- Guillaume

----------------------------------
Linux Kernel 2.5 Status  -  July 10th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.25)


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   More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
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      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 Alpha       Remove the 2TB block device limit               (Peter Chubb)
o Alpha       SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)     (lksctp team)

o Started     Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)
o Started     InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)
* Started     Fix device naming issues                        (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)

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)


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.  
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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:10:08 +0200
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:

> Also on the planned deletion list:
>    - Add thrashing control

I've had the mechanism working for well over a year now, but
still don't have a proper policy for load control implemented.

> o Beta        New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)

This is (in limited form) ready for merging and has been
stability tested by Andrew Morton. A patch should go to
Linus soon...

kind regards,

Rik
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Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".

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Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5]  July 10, 2002
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> > >    - Better event logging for enterprise systems
> Linus was scared we could break old syslog parsers.

This is still in discussion. The real issue is not breaking syslog parsers
(in fact its a way to make sure they dont break in future) but to get 

-	Accurate reporting
-	Error classifications
-	Error manuals
-	Translations
etc

done in a way that doesnt make the kernel ugly. Thats non trivial. I need
to schedule a discussion with some IBM folks about part of this 


Alan
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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 07:40:06 +0200
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New week, new status update...
The details are at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

With the code freeze date approaching soon, it is obvious that many 
of these projects will not get merged in the next 3 months.
What would you rather me do?  Keep them in here just for reference,
mark them as post-code freeze or just delete them?

Let me know what you think,

-- Guillaume

--------------------------------------------------------
Linux Kernel 2.5 Status  -  July 17th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.26)


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   More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in 2.5.23+  Hotplug CPU support                             (Rusty Russell)
* in 2.5.25   Faster internal kernel clock frequency          (Linus Torvalds)

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      Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)

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       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
o Ready       New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)

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        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 Beta        More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Beta        Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
* Beta        High resolution timers                          (George Anzinger, etc.)

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 Alpha       Remove the 2TB block device limit               (Peter Chubb)
o Alpha       SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)     (lksctp team)

o Started     Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)
o Started     InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)
o Started     Fix device naming issues                        (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)

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)


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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On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:

> New week, new status update...
> The details are at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/
>
> With the code freeze date approaching soon, it is obvious that many
> of these projects will not get merged in the next 3 months.
> What would you rather me do?  Keep them in here just for reference,
> mark them as post-code freeze or just delete them?

Please keep them as post-code freeze.  They might not go into
2.5 and early 2.6, but that doesn't mean we should throw away
our TODO list ;)

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From: "Guillaume Boissiere" <boissi...@adiglobal.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:00:08 +0200
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I broke down my status list into 3 categories: 
- likely to be merged before the Halloween feature freeze
- likely not to be ready by Halloween
- ongoing work

Do you think the breakdown is realistic?

-- Guillaume

PS: Remember, no more than 15-20 big features get usually 
    merged in 3 months :-)


-------------------------------------------
Before feature freeze:

o New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)
o Add Linux Security Module (LSM)                 (LSM team)
o Rewrite of the console layer                    (James Simmons)
o New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver    (Patrick Mochel)
o Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling       (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
o Strict address space accounting                 (Alan Cox)
o USB gadget support                              (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
o Serial driver restructure                       (Russell King)
o Add User-Mode Linux (UML)                       (Jeff Dike)
o Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O               (Andrew Morton)
o More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Fix device naming issues                        (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)


After feature freeze:

o Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)
o Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion               (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)            (Keith Owens)
o PCMCIA Zoom video support                       (Alan Cox)
o Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)      (XFS team)
o New IO scheduler                                (Jens Axboe)
o Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro)
o Asynchronous IO (aio) support                   (Ben LaHaise)
o EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)      (EVMS team)
o LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0               (LVM team)
o Dynamic Probes                                  (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Page table sharing                              (Daniel Phillips)
o ext2/ext3 online resize support                 (Andreas Dilger)
o UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)
o Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
o Full compliance with IPv6                       (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite              (Al Viro)
o Scalable Statistics Counter                     (Ravikiran Thirumalai)
o Linux Kernel Crash Dumps                        (Matt Robinson, LKCD team)
o Add support for NFS v4                          (NFS v4 team)
o ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index  (Daniel Phillips, Christopher Li, Ted Ts'o)
o Zerocopy NFS                                    (Hirokazu Takahashi)
o Remove the 2TB block device limit               (Peter Chubb)
o SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)     (lksctp team)
o High resolution timers                          (George Anzinger, etc.)
o Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)
o InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)
o New lightweight library (klibc)                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Replace initrd by initramfs                     (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Add thrashing control                           (Rik van Riel)
o Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel        (Alan Cox, etc.)
o Generic parameter/command line interface        (Keith Owens)
o New mount API                                   (Al Viro)


Ongoing work:

o Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency  (Andrew Morton, Robert Love, etc.)
o Better support of high-end NUMA machines        (NUMA team)
o Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock)         (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, Dave Hansen, etc.)
o Change all drivers to new driver model          (All maintainers)
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On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 21:49, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:

> o Strict address space accounting                 (Alan Cox)

My patch for this, while a bit large, is simple enough it can be merged
after the freeze.  E.g., if rmap is merged this is just "more rmap work"
and sane.

I would bump this down to "After feature freeze..." although I see no
reason it cannot go in sooner (I just do not consider it a pre-freeze
item in terms of its impact).

> After feature freeze:

Easily 90% of this stuff should _not_ go in after the freeze.  It either
needs to make it in now or hold its breath until 2.7.

I would much prefer a rush of merges now and less "improper" merges
after the freeze.  In fact, I do not care much what we do now as long as
we treat the freeze as a freeze and work solely to stabilize stuff.

	Robert Love

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On 18 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> > After feature freeze:
>
> Easily 90% of this stuff should _not_ go in after the freeze.  It either
> needs to make it in now or hold its breath until 2.7.
>
> I would much prefer a rush of merges now and less "improper" merges
> after the freeze.  In fact, I do not care much what we do now as long as
> we treat the freeze as a freeze and work solely to stabilize stuff.

Agreed. What we need is a 2.6 that is relatively easy to
stabilise, not one that'll take until 2.6.20 to become
stable.

If some of the other features turn out to be needed, they
can always be backported from 2.7.  In fact, backporting
from 2.7 is probably _quicker_ than throwing in too many
features just before the feature freeze and then try to
stabilise them all at once together...

regards,

Rik
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I've reorganized the list into 5 categories based on the feedback 
I received.  Now let's see what happens  :-)

In line with your expectations?

-- Guillaume


----------------------------------------------------
Likely to be merged before feature freeze:

  o New VM with reverse mappings
  o Add Linux Security Module (LSM)
  o New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver
  o Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling
  o Add User-Mode Linux (UML)
  o Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O
  o Fix device naming issues
  o Remove the 2TB block device limit 

----------------------------------------------------
"The pressure is on! (TM)":
(either gets merged before feature freeze or has to wait till 2.7)

  o Rewrite of the console layer                    
  o XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)
  o LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0
  o Zerocopy NFS
  o Asynchronous IO (aio) support
  o New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)
  o Serial driver restructure                       
  o Replace initrd by initramfs
  o ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index

----------------------------------------------------
Can be merged after the feature freeze and before the 2.6 release:

  o Strict address space accounting                 
  o More complete NetBEUI stack                     
  o Add hardware sensors drivers                    
  o PCMCIA Zoom video support               
  o Change all drivers to new driver model
  o UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)
  o USB gadget support

----------------------------------------------------
Would be nice to have before feature freeze, but most likely 2.7:

  o Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer
  o Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion
  o New IO scheduler
  o Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs
  o EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)
  o Dynamic Probes
  o Page table sharing
  o ext2/ext3 online resize support
  o Better event logging for enterprise systems
  o UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite
  o Scalable Statistics Counter
  o Linux Kernel Crash Dumps
  o SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)
  o High resolution timers
  o Overhaul PCMCIA support
  o Reiserfs v4
  o New lightweight library (klibc)
  o New mount API
  o Generic parameter/command line interface
  o Full compliance with IPv6
  o Serial ATA support      
  o Add support for NFS v4

----------------------------------------------------
Definitely 2.7:

o InfiniBand support
o Add thrashing control
o Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel

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Many many changes this week, including the inclusion of the new 
virtual memory system using reverse mapping in 2.5.27.  

Also added better entries for all the NUMA work tentatively planned 
for inclusion in 2.6.  If you have not looked at the status list 
in a while, chances are you won't recognize it :-)

The latest status update is always available at 
                    http://kernelnewbies.org/status/
Enjoy! 

-- Guillaume

-----------------------------------
Linux Kernel 2.5 Status  -  July 24th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.27)


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   More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in 2.5.23+  Hotplug CPU support                             (Rusty Russell)
o in 2.5.25   Faster internal kernel clock frequency          (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.26   Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O               (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.27+  New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)
o in 2.5.28   Serial driver restructure                       (Russell King)
* in 2.5.28   Remove the "Big IRQ lock"                       (Ingo Molnar)

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      Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)

o Ready       Read-Copy Update (RCU) Mutual Exclusion         (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o Ready       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
o Ready       Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)      (Karim Yaghmour)

o Beta        New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)            (Keith Owens)
o Beta        New IO scheduler                                (Jens Axboe)
o Beta        Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)      (XFS team)
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        Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2) (LVM team)
o Beta        Dynamic Probes                                  (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Beta        Page table sharing                              (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken)
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        More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Beta        Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
o Beta        High resolution timers                          (George Anzinger, etc.)
* Beta        discontigmem support                            (Pat Gaughen, Jack Steiner, Tony Luck, etc.)

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 Alpha       Remove the 2TB block device limit               (Peter Chubb)
o Alpha       SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)     (lksctp team)
o Alpha       USB gadget support                              (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
* Alpha       NUMA aware scheduler extensions                 (Erich Focht)     
* Alpha       Basic NUMA API                                  (Matt Dobson)
* Alpha       NUMA topology support                           (Matt Dobson)
* Alpha       Non-linear memory support                       (Martin Bligh, Daniel Phillips)
* Alpha       Parallelizing page replacement                  (William Lee Irwin)
* Alpha       VM large page support                           (Simon Winwood, Hubertus Franke)
* Alpha       Remove waitqueue heads from kernel structures   (William Lee Irwin)
* Alpha       Remove the global tasklist                      (William Lee Irwin)


o Started     Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)
o Started     InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)
o Started     Fix device naming issues                        (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Started     Replace initrd by initramfs                     (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
* Started     Make AppleTalk use shared skbs and refcounting  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Started     NUMA aware multipath IO                         (Pat Mansfield, Mike Anderson)
* Started     NUMA aware slab allocator                       (Martin Bligh)

o Draft #2    New lightweight library (klibc)                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
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)


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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The most fundamental part of this has already been discussed a lot and
posted to the kernel list, including a lot of fixes (all hopefully 
integrated). That's obviously the removal of the global irq lock. In the 
short term (famous last words) that breaks a number of SMP configurations, 
but fixing them should not be horribly hard.

A lot of other stuff here too - the regular USB updates, fbdev updates,
m68k and ppc64 updates, IDE fix, and a sync-up with Al. Serial lawyer all 
shook up (the irq lock kind of forced that one, but it's certainly been 
pending long enough..)

Go wild,

		Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.5.27 to v2.5.28
============================================

<dale...@evision.ag>:
  o IDE-101

<j...@jblache.org>:
  o drivers/usb/misc/tiglusb.c v1.04

<jsimm...@maxwell.earthlink.net>:
  o Added help for the Toshbia and Permedia3 framebuffer devices. Small
    fixes for the ATI 128 card and the logo drawing code in fbcon.c.
    Proper handling of data for pci handling
  o Added VBI support to VESA. ATY 128 compiles now :-)
  o Removed all old fbgen code. Small cleanups
  o Synced up to m68k changes

<le...@movementarian.org>:
  o consolidate task->mm code + fix

<pet...@users.sourceforge.net>:
  o USB: rtl8150 updated

Alexander Viro <v...@math.psu.edu>:
  o make hfs use regular semaphores
  o Use wipe_partitions() where appropriate
  o partition parsing cleanup
  o block device size cleanups
  o partition handling locking cleanups
  o blk_ioctl() not exported anymore
  o paride cleanup and fixes
  o SCSI ->bios_param() switched to struct block_device *
  o removal of dead prototypes
  o jffs kdev_t cleanups
  o fix for nfs_unlink and vfs_unlink
  o Fix dcache deadlock introduced by previous fix

Andrew Morton <a...@zip.com.au>:
  o disable highpte in rmap kernels
  o page-writeback.c compile warning fix

Anton Blanchard <an...@samba.org>:
  o ppc64: enable eeh on non-LPAR
  o ppc64: copy_user_page and clear_user_page now take a page * ppc64:
    updates for mmu gather code
  o ppc64: Use non context synchronising mtmsrd. Cleanup init.c
  o ppc64: 64 and 32 bit signal cleanups from Stephen Rothwell
  o ppc64: Implement copy_siginfo_to_user32 from Stephen Rothwell
  o ppc64: Remove POWER4 special case for cache_decay_ticks
  o ppc64: Initial DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA support
  o ppc64: Only use irq balancing on openpic for the moment
  o ppc64: update ppc64 tlb batch code
  o ppc64: Add fls
  o ppc64: POWER4 lazy icache flushing
  o ppc64: add missing gcc barrier in softirq code
  o ppc64: export timebase frequency in /proc/cpuinfo
  o pSeries HVC console: Fix hang up race - from Dave Engebretsen
  o pSeries HVC console: Add SYSRQ and handle errors better from Dave
    Engebretsen
  o pSeries firmware flash support from Todd Inglett
  o ppc64: iSeries updates
  o ppc64: increase IRQ_KMALLOC_ENTRIES
  o ppc64: ptrace cleanup from Stephen Rothwell
  o ppc64: ptrace32 fix when tracing 64bit tasks from Will Schmidt
  o ppc64: config.h resync and remove some stale code ppc64: turn off
    STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
  o pSeries HVC console: fix hvc_hangup definition
  o ppc64: remove __openfirmware and __chrp
  o ppc64: include/asm/md.h is not used any more
  o ppc64: remove some stale code
  o ppc64: updates for 2.5.21
  o ppc64: Makefile updates
  o ppc64: non linear cpu support
  o ppc64: define new scheduler hooks
  o ppc64: update for recent 32/64bit binutils
  o ppc64: Fix warnings
  o ppc64: Fix for 32 bit ELF timeval handling, from sparc64
  o ppc64: define SMP_CACHE_BYTES and cleanup HZ handling
  o ppc64: use symbolic names for fault types
  o ppc64: _switch_to -> __switch_to
  o ppc64: defconfig update
  o ppc64: exception should be 0x480 for instruction SLB miss - jimix
  o ppc64: misc cleanups
  o ppc64: __clear_user should return number of bytes not copied
  o ppc64: iSeries update - from 2.4
  o ppc64: add comment and missing include
  o ppc64: Add northstar CPU
  o ppc64: Add winnipeg support
  o ppc64: UP fix for irq affinity
  o ppc64: add POWER4+ (GQ) support
  o ppc64: add rmap.h
  o ppc64: workaround for gcc 3.1, otherwise we busy loop in
    pte_chain_lock()
  o ppc64: fix test_bit and remove workaround in cpu_relax
  o ppc64: big IRQ lock removal
  o ppc64: Fix for spurious interrupts in LPAR without ISA
  o ppc64: merge some 2.4 fixes
  o ppc64: missed during last merge
  o ppc64: Designated initializers from Rusty
  o ppc64: add Config.help
  o ppc64: Optimise for 630 by default
  o ppc64: put paca in r13 and fix non zero boot cpu
  o flags must be unsigned long]
  o Make tlb_remove_tlb_entry take ptep]
  o Fix token ring compile]

Christopher Hoover <c...@hpl.hp.com>:
  o for ohci on SA-1111
  o set_device_description oops fixage mk2

Dave Kleikamp <sha...@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>:
  o Clean up Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt
  o JFS: Use cond_resched()
  o JFS: cosmetic syncup with 2.4 code
  o JFS: Replace depreciated initializer syntax with C99 style

David Brownell <davi...@pacbell.net>:
  o usb_set_interface() doc
  o hid_ff_init could not find initializer

Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>:
  o M68k update (1-49)

Greg Kroah-Hartman <g...@kroah.com>:
  o PCI Hotplug: fix i_nlink for root inode in pcihpfs
  o PCI Hotplug: fix the dbg() macro to work properly on older versions
    of gcc
  o USB pl2303: new device support added
  o USB: rio500.c bugfix
  o USB: usb-serial.h cleanups
  o USB: changed the interface name to be a bit more unique

Hugh Dickins <h...@veritas.com>:
  o shm_destroy lock hang
  o shmem_link duplicated test
  o shmem_file_write double kunmap
  o shmem_getpage_locked missing unlock

Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>:
  o "big IRQ lock" removal, IRQ cleanups
  o "big IRQ lock" removal docs
  o Re: [patch] cli()/sti() cleanup
  o irqlock patch 2.5.27-H6
  o scheduler fixes

James Simmons <jsimm...@heisenberg.transvirtual.com>:
  o Removal of nonexistant iplan16 support. Compile fix for aty128fb
    driver. Proper handling of PCI private data for fbdev drivers
  o Removed old FB_COMPAT_XPMAC stuff. Ported over the Riva framebuffer
    driver over to the new api. Updated the Voodoo 1 driver
  o Added Help info for Permedia 3 and Toshiba TX3912 graphics card
    support
  o Updated Voodoo 1 documentation
  o Finished the NVIDIA driver port to the new api. Killed a strtok in
    sstfb
  o Added VBI support to VESA
  o Supports more NVIDIA cards
  o NVIDIA fixes to handle HSYNC and VSYNC flags. Set the registers to
    read the image data as big endian. Handle the different smem_len
    for different kinds of cards
  o Cleanusp for the 3Dfx driver
  o Finally touchs to the New mac framebuffer driver. Started the port
    of the ATI 128 driver to the new api. A few small optimizations and
    a bug fix for SUN 12x22 fonts with the new accel code
  o M68K updates for there framebuffer devices
  o More changes to port over teh ATI 128 driver to new api.
    Optimizations for fbgen and small bug fix for gen_update_var
  o Ported over ATI 128 Rage driver to new api. A few config mistakes
    where fixed
  o Ported SA1100 framebuffer over to new fbdev api
  o Fixed bug for large logos. Also had to make a patch to handle X
    server reversing the image order programming verses how the riva
    fbdev driver does it
  o Removed fbcon-vga.c and the old fbgen code. Ported over the SgiVW,
    OpenFirmware fbdev driver and started the Mach64 fbdev driver to
    the new api. A few simple typos as well
  o Port step some changes at authors request
  o Reversed so more changes
  o Permiedia 2 support on PowerPC platform
  o Updates to SIS framebuffer driver
  o Porting Mach 64 drive over to new api

Jan Harkes <jahar...@cs.cmu.edu>:
  o uhci-hcd suspend fix

Jens Axboe <ax...@burns.home.kernel.dk>:
  o add __blk_stop_queue() as locked variant of blk_stop_queue() and
    make cpqarray and cciss use these

kai.makis...@kolumbus.fi <Kai.Makis...@kolumbus.fi>:
  o SCSI tape driver fixes for 2.5.27

Linus Torvalds <torva...@home.transmeta.com>:
  o Fix incoherent LDT at mmap exit
  o Update ensoniq sound driver to new irq serialization
  o Remove extraneous dget/dput pair in vfs_unlink() that confused the
    NFS client code wrt the exclusiveness of a dentry getting removed.
  o Remove unused variable
  o Fix up irqlock removal patch, avoid compiler warnings
  o Fixups for previous changesets, avoid warnings etc

Neil Brown <ne...@cse.unsw.edu.au>:
  o type safe(r) list_entry repacement: container_of
  o MD - Fix two bugs that would cause sync_sbs to Oops
  o MD - Convert struct initialised in md to "the new way"
  o MD - Remove get_spare declaration and associated warning
  o NFSD - new struct initialisers for nfsd

Richard Gooch <rgo...@atnf.csiro.au>:
  o Switched to ISO C structure field initialisers

Rik van Riel <r...@conectiva.com.br>:
  o urgent rmap bugfix

Robert Love <r...@tech9.net>:
  o Re: "big IRQ lock" removal docs

Russell King <r...@arm.linux.org.uk>:
  o Serial driver stuff
  o [SERIAL] Rename files to remove serial_ prefix
  o [SERIAL] Fix up various filenames, etc, from Ingo's merge of serial
  o [SERIAL] Fix another SMP deadlock with modem status signal changes
    The original fix sent to Ingo for stop_tx didn't take account that
    the start_tx and stop_tx methods can be called from the device
    specific code under the port spinlock.  Consequently, we move the
    spinlock to the callers of these methods.  Documentation updated to
    reflect the change.
  o [SERIAL] Fix deadlock in __uart_start introduced in previous cset
    Thanks to Zwane Mwaikambo for finding this.
  o [SERIAL] Fix sa1100 serial driver stop function parameters

Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>:
  o AGP designated initializer update
  o drivers/hotplug designated initializers

Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@fys.uio.no>:
  o 2.5.27 fix potential spinlocking race


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Error building 2.5.28:

  ld -m elf_i386 -T arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext
arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/init.o
--start-group arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o
kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o security/built-in.o
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/arch/i386/lib/lib.a lib/lib.a
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/arch/i386/lib/lib.a drivers/built-in.o
sound/sound.o arch/i386/pci/pci.o net/network.o --end-group -o vmlinux
drivers/built-in.o: In function `put_cmd640_reg_pci1':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:223: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:224: undefined reference to
`cli'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `get_cmd640_reg_pci1':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:235: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:236: undefined reference to
`cli'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:239: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `put_cmd640_reg_pci2':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:249: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:250: undefined reference to
`cli'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `get_cmd640_reg_pci2':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:262: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:263: undefined reference to
`cli'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:267: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `put_cmd640_reg_vlb':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:277: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:278: undefined reference to
`cli'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `get_cmd640_reg_vlb':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:289: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:290: undefined reference to
`cli'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:293: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `put_cmd640_reg_pci1':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:227: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `put_cmd640_reg_pci2':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:254: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `put_cmd640_reg_vlb':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:281: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `secondary_port_responding':
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:370: undefined reference to
`save_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:371: undefined reference to
`cli'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:379: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
/usr/src/linux-2.5.28/drivers/ide/cmd640.c:383: undefined reference to
`restore_flags'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1


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On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 16:46, Paul Larson wrote:
> Error building 2.5.28:

Forgot to mention this is an SMP box.  Without CONFIG_SMP it works fine.

-Paul Larson

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On 24 Jul 2002, Paul Larson wrote:
>
> Error building 2.5.28:

Yes, a number of drivers won't compile on SMP because they want the global
lock (that is gone). This includes the cmd640 IDE driver, and the parallel
port driver (and a largish number of others too, but I think those two are
the really common ones).

It should all work the same way it always did on UP, and hopefully the
straggling drivers will be converted to use local spinlocks soon (and in
some cases the global irq lock might not even be needed at all)

		Linus

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

Of note this week for security enthusiasts is the beginning of the 
Linux Security Module (LSM) merge.

As usual, feedback and corrections welcome.
Enjoy!

-- Guillaume


--------------------------------------------------------
Linux Kernel 2.5 Status  -  July 31th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.29)


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 2.5.9    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   More complete IEEE 802.2 stack                  (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in 2.5.23+  Hotplug CPU support                             (Rusty Russell)
o in 2.5.25   Faster internal kernel clock frequency          (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.26   Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O               (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.27+  New VM with reverse mappings                    (Rik van Riel)
o in 2.5.28+  Serial driver restructure                       (Russell King)
o in 2.5.28   Remove the "Big IRQ lock"                       (Ingo Molnar)
* in 2.5.29   Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support              (Ingo Molnar)
o in 2.5.29+  Add Linux Security Module (LSM)                 (LSM team)

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      Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer    (Alan Cox)

o Ready       Read-Copy Update (RCU) Mutual Exclusion         (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)
o Ready       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
o Ready       Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)      (Karim Yaghmour)
o Ready       Remove the 2TB block device limit               (Peter Chubb)
o Ready       Add User-Mode Linux (UML)                       (Jeff Dike)

o Beta        New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5)            (Keith Owens)
o Beta        New IO scheduler                                (Jens Axboe)
o Beta        Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)      (XFS team)
o Beta        Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency  (Andrew Morton, Robert Love, etc.)
o Beta        Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro)
o Beta        EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)      (EVMS team)
o Beta        Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2) (LVM team)
o Beta        Dynamic Probes                                  (Suparna Bhattacharya, dprobes team)
o Beta        Page table sharing                              (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken)
o Beta        ext2/ext3 online resize support                 (Andreas Dilger)
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        More complete NetBEUI stack                     (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Beta        Better event logging for enterprise systems     (Larry Kessler, evlog team)
o Beta        High resolution timers                          (George Anzinger, etc.)
o Beta        discontigmem support                            (Pat Gaughen, Jack Steiner, Tony Luck, etc.)
* Beta        Add new CIFS (Common Internet File System)      (Steve French)

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 Alpha       SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)     (lksctp team)
o Alpha       USB gadget support                              (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Alpha       NUMA aware scheduler extensions                 (Erich Focht)     
o Alpha       Basic NUMA API                                  (Matt Dobson)
o Alpha       NUMA topology support                           (Matt Dobson)
o Alpha       Non-linear memory support                       (Martin Bligh, Daniel Phillips)
o Alpha       Parallelizing page replacement                  (William Lee Irwin)
o Alpha       VM large page support                           (Simon Winwood, Hubertus Franke)
o Alpha       Remove waitqueue heads from kernel structures   (William Lee Irwin)
o Alpha       Remove the global tasklist                      (William Lee Irwin)
o Alpha       Overhaul PCMCIA support                         (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)

o Started     Reiserfs v4                                     (Reiserfs team)
o Started     Serial ATA support                              (Andre Hedrick)
o Started     InfiniBand support                              (InfiniBand team)
o Started     Fix device naming issues                        (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Started     Replace initrd by initramfs                     (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Started     Make AppleTalk use shared skbs and refcounting  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Started     SCSI multipath IO (with NUMA support)           (Patrick Mansfield, Mike Anderson)
o Started     NUMA aware slab allocator                       (Martin Bligh)

o Draft #2    New lightweight library (klibc)                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
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)


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)
* Started     Remove incomplete SPX network stack             (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Started     Rework datalink protocols to not use cli/sti    (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

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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Guillaume Boissier writes:

> Definitely 2.7:
>
> o InfiniBand support

Why?

Sure, one could get fancy, but just running SCSI or IP
over InfiniBand can't be that complicated... hmmm?
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In article <200208010156.g711uMc340...@saturn.cs.uml.edu>,
Albert D. Cahalan <acaha...@cs.uml.edu> wrote:
>Guillaume Boissier writes:
>
>> Definitely 2.7:
>>
>> o InfiniBand support
>
>Why?

It's big, it's complex, and nobody seems to take it that seriously (the
only people who ever asked _me_ about it was Intel, and they seem to
have cancelled their own projects). 

If it turns out to be a big hit, it can be backported. But as it looks
now, it has very little relevance for any 2.6 freeze schedule.

		Linus
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