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I've seen several times on this list people wondering what features
were in the works for 2.5 and what the status of the development was.
I did some grepping on the archive and put together a list of things
that have been discussed / worked on for 2.5 over the past year or so.
It's probably pretty incomplete and full of errors at this point but
I'll be happy to update it if you send me email.
o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar)
o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe)
o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds)
o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (Greg KH, others)
o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team)
o Ready IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick)
o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens)
o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
o Beta New driver API for Wireless Extensions (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe)
o Beta Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from SGI) (JFS team)
o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel)
o Beta Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love)
o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton)
o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)
o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team)
o Ongoing Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team)
o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise)
o Alpha Integrate EVMS into kernel (EVMS team)
o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons)
o Started New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel)
o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons)
o Started More complete NetBEUI and 802.2 net stacks (Alnaldo C de M)
o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg KH)
o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (hpa, Al Viro)
o Planning Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
o Planning Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel)
o Planning Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel (Alan Cox, etc)
o Planning Porting all input devices over to input API (James Simmons)
o Planning generic parameter/command line interface (Keith Owens)
I hope this is helpful. Enjoy!
-- gb
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From: Russell King <r...@arm.linux.org.uk>
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On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 02:13:11AM -0500, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> I've seen several times on this list people wondering what features
> were in the works for 2.5 and what the status of the development was.
> I did some grepping on the archive and put together a list of things
> that have been discussed / worked on for 2.5 over the past year or so.
You missed the serial.c restructure.
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From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez <jdomi...@internautas.org>
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On Thursday, 17 January 2002, at 02:13:11 -0500,
Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> I've seen several times on this list people wondering what features
> were in the works for 2.5 and what the status of the development was.
> I did some grepping on the archive and put together a list of things
> that have been discussed / worked on for 2.5 over the past year or so.
>
Great !!!. I think this "todo list" was much needed. Let me suggest a
couple of things that should find their way into 2.5.x sometime in the
futute, and that I consider important:
. Generic (VFS layer?) ACL implementation: it seems under heavy
develpment by some groups, and could be something quite interesting to
have for 2.6.x
. Linux Security Module (LSM)
. LVM 2: it seems LVM developers are about to release a first version of
the new (version 2.0) LVM (Logical Volume Management) implementation
for Linux. Seems to solve the problems current code base has.
. devfs 2: new implementation of Richard Gooch's devfs for Linux. devfs
is a "must have" for some people, and this new code seems to solve
everything that people complained about. AFAIR, Richard has submitted
several "cuts" of the new code.
There are other interesting things I don't follow as closely, and that
could be available when 2.5.x is still under development, maybe not.
. reiserfs 4 (later this year): maybe too late for inclusion.
. USAGI IPv6 implementation for Linux: maybe not ready for prime time.
. NFS v4: have read about it, but don't remember about deadlines.
. IPsec in kernel (FreeS/WAN): the neverending story :)
That is what I think are the most important things that _could_ be part
of future 2.6.0, should maintainers consider it as a good idea. Please,
this is only informative, not trying to "sell" you nothing.
Good work !
--
José Luis Domingo López
Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (P166 64 MB RAM)
jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk
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Jose Luis Domingo Lopez wrote:
>
>. reiserfs 4 (later this year): maybe too late for inclusion.
>.
>
Have you heard anything about when Linus intends to code freeze? In my
planning I am assuming Sept. 30 is way earlier than 2.6 would ship. I
remember how long 2.4 took, and I simply assume 2.6 will be the same.
At any rate, there is no way we'll be done earlier than September: it
is a deep rewrite. Code looks so much better than the old code...., but
it is completely new code.
Hans
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> Have you heard anything about when Linus intends to code freeze? In my
> planning I am assuming Sept. 30 is way earlier than 2.6 would ship. I
> remember how long 2.4 took, and I simply assume 2.6 will be the same.
> At any rate, there is no way we'll be done earlier than September: it
> is a deep rewrite. Code looks so much better than the old code...., but
> it is completely new code.
If Linus says september freezes in september and ships for christmas I will
be most suprised. If he says september freezes the may after and ships the
december after that I'd count it normal
Personally I'd really like to see the block I/O stuff straightened out. The
neccessary VM bits done, device driver updates and a September freeze. I
think it can be done, and I think the resulting kernel will be way way
better for people with 1Gb+ of RAM, so much better that its worth making a
clear release at that point.
Alan
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Here is a new and improved list, thanks to all the great feedback I have
received from dozens of people. Again, if there are any inaccuracies,
please let me know and I will do my best to correct it for next week.
For everyone's enjoyment, I have also put an online version, (with
hyperlinks, yeah!) at:
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/boissiere/Status-18-Jan-2002.html
Items in bold are new since last time. Also, to avoid having the list
become too big over time, I have decided that I will only accept items
that can be expected to be merged within the next 6 months (i.e. the
end of June).
Enjoy!
-- Guillaume
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Kernel 2.5 status - January 18th, 2002
Features:
o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar, Davide Libenzi)
o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe)
o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc)
o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, others)
* Pending IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick)
* Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds)
o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
* Ready HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa)
o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team)
o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens)
o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
* Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
* Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King)
o Beta New driver API for Wireless Extensions (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe)
* Beta NAPI Network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Beta Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM) (JFS team)
* Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team)
o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel)
o Beta Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love)
o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton)
o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)
o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team)
o Ongoing Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team)
o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise)
o Alpha Integrate EVMS into kernel (EVMS team)
* Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
* Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons)
o Started New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel)
o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons)
o Started More complete NetBEUI and 802.2 net stacks (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Planning Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
o Planning Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel)
o Planning Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel (Alan Cox, etc)
o Planning Porting all input devices over to input API (James Simmons)
o Planning Generic parameter/command line interface (Keith Owens)
Cleanups:
* Ready Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise)
* Started Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik)
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> >For everyone's enjoyment, I have also put an online version, (with
> >hyperlinks, yeah!) at:
> >http://people.ne.mediaone.net/boissiere/Status-18-Jan-2002.html
>
> Nice, but could you give it a permanent URL, like latest.html or index.html?
Also it might be a good idea to add the kernel version it refers to at
the top.
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You seem to be short
NetBEUI network stack Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo (from
Procom donated code)
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Lots of new things this week. First, a new URL that (yes!) people can
bookmark:
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/status.html
Many thanks to John Levon, Rik van Riel and the folks at kernelnewbies.org
for providing the hosting! You guys rock.
Also, lots of new features (in bold) have been added this week. Hopefully,
most of the *truly* important stuff should be in the list now, maybe except
a few things (nfs4? scsi?). Otherwise, if more features get added than
merged any given week, 2.5 is going to be long in the coming :-)
Finally, I have to admit the amount of feedback I have received has been
incredible and has helped improve this list dramatically, so big thanks
to everyone who has sent me pointers, keep doing it. My main concern right
now is to keep this status list to a reasonnable size, otherwise it will
become unmanageable. My plan is pretty simple, I will only accept:
1. A major feature, i.e. *lots* of people are anxious to get this in the
2.5 tree because they will use it (i.e kbuild or NAPI)
OR
2. A feature/cleanup that touches critical parts of the kernel and
requires lots of people to know about it because they will be affected
--> i.e. good communication of status is important (i.e some of the
VFS work).
In short, don't bother sending me driver updates...
And as usual, let me know of any inaccuracies, and I'll be happy to
correct them.
Cheers,
-- Guillaume
-------------------------------------------------------------
Kernel 2.5 status - January 23th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.3-pre3)
Features:
o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar, Davide Libenzi)
o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe)
o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc)
o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, others)
* Merged Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul)
o Merged IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick)
o Merged New driver API for Wireless Extensions (1/2) (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds)
o in -dj Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
o Ready HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa)
o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team)
* Ready Support reiserfs external journal (Reiserfs team)
* Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors team)
o Ready Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love)
o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens)
o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
o Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King)
o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe)
o Beta NAPI Network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Beta Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM) (JFS team)
o Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team)
o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel)
o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton)
o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)
o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team)
* Beta Add Linux Security Module (LSM) (LSM team)
* Beta Generic ACL (Access Control List) support (Nathan Scott)
* Beta Hotplug CPU support (Rusty Russell)
* Beta Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro)
o Alpha Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team)
o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise)
o Alpha EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team)
o Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Alpha More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
* Alpha LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (Heintz Mauelshagen, Andreas Dilger, LVM team)
* Alpha Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, LSE Team)
* Alpha Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
* Alpha Linux booting ELF images (Eric Biederman)
* Alpha First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric Biederman)
* Alpha UMSDOS Rewrite (Al Viro)
o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons)
o Started New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel)
o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons)
o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)
o Planning Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
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)
* Planning Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, others)
* Planning New mount API (Al Viro)
Cleanups:
o Ready Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro)
* Ready ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes (Al Viro)
o Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise)
* Beta Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)
* Beta Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups (Al Viro)
* Beta Lifting limitations on mount(2) (Al Viro)
o Started Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik)
* Started Killing kdev_t for block devices (Al Viro)
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...@mediaone.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 06:40:11 +0100
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The latest list is available at: http://kernelnewbies.org/status/
Items in bold are changes since last week.
The big thing in the past week is the work done on driverfs by
Patrick Mochel, which started to appear in 2.5
If you are a driver maintainer, you may want to look at this :-)
As usual, let me know of any inaccuracies, and I'll be happy to
correct them.
Enjoy!
-- Guillaume
--------------------------------------------------
Kernel 2.5 status - January 30th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.3pre6)
Features:
o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar, Davide Libenzi)
o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe)
o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc.)
o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.)
o Merged Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul)
o Merged IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick)
o Merged New driver API for Wireless Extensions (1/2) (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds)
o Pending New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel)
o in -dj Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
o Ready HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa)
o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team)
o Ready Support reiserfs external journal (Reiserfs team)
o Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors team)
o Ready Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love)
o Ready Generic ACL (Access Control List) support (Nathan Scott)
o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens)
o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
o Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King)
o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe)
o Beta NAPI Network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team)
o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel)
o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton)
o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)
o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team)
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 Alpha Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team)
o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise)
o Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
o Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Alpha More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o Alpha LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (Heintz Mauelshagen, Andreas Dilger, LVM team)
o Alpha Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, LSE Team)
o Alpha Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o Alpha Linux booting ELF images (Eric Biederman)
o Alpha First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric Biederman)
o Alpha UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite (Al Viro)
* Alpha Scalable CPU bitmaps (Russ Weight)
o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons)
o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons)
o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
o Started Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, etc.)
o Started Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
* Started Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team)
* Started Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface (ISDN4Linux 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)
* Planning New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Dave Jones)
Cleanups:
* Merged Break Configure.help into multiple files (Linus Torvalds)
o Ready Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro)
o Ready ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes (Al Viro)
o Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise)
o Beta Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)
o Beta Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups (Al Viro)
o Beta Lifting limitations on mount(2) (Al Viro)
o Started Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik)
o Started Killing kdev_t for block devices (Al Viro)
* Started Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)
* Started Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)
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From: Dipankar Sarma <dipan...@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 30, 2002
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Hi Guillaume,
Another work in progress in our group - Scalable statistics counters
by Ravikiran Thirumalai.
Here is the lkml discussion -
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=100755030000002&r=1&w=2
We are working on the suggestions regarding /proc integration.
Thanks
Dipankar
--
Dipankar Sarma <dipan...@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
In article <3C573F6B.19221.1E703BBF@localhost> Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> The latest list is available at: http://kernelnewbies.org/status/
> Items in bold are changes since last week.
> The big thing in the past week is the work done on driverfs by
> Patrick Mochel, which started to appear in 2.5
> If you are a driver maintainer, you may want to look at this :-)
> As usual, let me know of any inaccuracies, and I'll be happy to
> correct them.
> Enjoy!
> -- Guillaume
> --------------------------------------------------
> Kernel 2.5 status - January 30th, 2002
> (Latest kernel release is 2.5.3pre6)
> Features:
> o Merged New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar, Davide Libenzi)
> o Merged Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe)
> o Merged New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus Torvalds, etc.)
> o Merged Initial support for USB 2.0 (David Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.)
> o Merged Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups (Al Viro, Manfred Spraul)
> o Merged IDE layer update (Andre Hedrick)
> o Merged New driver API for Wireless Extensions (1/2) (Jean Tourrilhes)
> o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus Torvalds)
> o Pending New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick Mochel)
> o in -dj Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
> o Ready Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike)
> o Ready HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof Halasa)
> o Ready Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team)
> o Ready Support reiserfs external journal (Reiserfs team)
> o Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors team)
> o Ready Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love)
> o Ready Generic ACL (Access Control List) support (Nathan Scott)
> o <1 month New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens)
> o <1 month New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond)
> o Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven)
> o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King)
> o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe)
> o Beta NAPI Network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov)
> o Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team)
> o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel)
> o Beta Add resheduling points to remove latency (Andrew Morton)
> o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)
> o Beta Better event logging for enterprise systems (evlog team)
> 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 Alpha Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team)
> o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise)
> o Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)
> o Alpha Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov)
> o Alpha More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
> o Alpha LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (Heintz Mauelshagen, Andreas Dilger, LVM team)
> o Alpha Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, LSE Team)
> o Alpha Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI
> team)
> o Alpha Linux booting ELF images (Eric Biederman)
> o Alpha First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric Biederman)
> o Alpha UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite (Al Viro)
> * Alpha Scalable CPU bitmaps (Russ Weight)
> o Started Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons)
> o Started Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons)
> o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)
> o Started Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox, Robert Love, Neil Brown, etc.)
> o Started Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
> * Started Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team)
> * Started Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface (ISDN4Linux 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)
> * Planning New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Dave Jones)
> Cleanups:
> * Merged Break Configure.help into multiple files (Linus Torvalds)
> o Ready Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
> o Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro)
> o Ready ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes (Al Viro)
> o Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin LaHaise)
> o Beta Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)
> o Beta Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups (Al Viro)
> o Beta Lifting limitations on mount(2) (Al Viro)
> o Started Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel Phillips, Jeff Garzik)
> o Started Killing kdev_t for block devices (Al Viro)
> * Started Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)
> * 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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