More version skew: Jeff Garzik tells me zerocopy NFS is merged already. ----- Linus returns from the Linux Lunacy Cruise after Sunday, October 27th. (By the time you read this, he should be in Cozumel, Mexico. En route to Grand Cayman, Jamaica, the Bahamas, and Ft Lauderdale. See http://www.geekcruises.com/itinerary/ll2_itinerary.html ) The following features aim to be ready for submission to Linus by Monday, October 28th, to be considered for inclusion (in 2.5.45) before the feature freeze on Thursday, October 31 (halloween). Note: if you want to submit a new entry to this list, PLEASE provide a URL to where the patch can be found, and any descriptive announcement you think useful (user space tools, etc). This doesn't have to be a web page devoted to the patch, if the patch has been posted to linux-kernel a URL to the post on any linux-kernel archive site is fine. If you don't know of one, a good site for looking at the threaded archive is: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/ and a more searchable archive is available at: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=mlist.linux.kernel This list is just pending features trying to get in before feature freeze. If you want to know what's already gone in, or what's being worked on for the next development cycle, check out "http://kernelnewbies.org/status". You can get Andrew Morton's MM tree here: http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5 And Alan Cox's -ac tree here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/ And now, in no particular order: ============================ Pending features: ============================= 1) Roman Zippel's new kernel configuration system. Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6898.html Code: http://www.xs4all.nl/~zippel/lc/ Linus has actually looked fairly favorably on this one so far: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/3250.html 2) Ted Tso's new ext2/ext3 code with extended attributes and access control lists. Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6787.html Code: bk://extfs.bkbits.net/extfs-2.5-update http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.5 Andreas Dilger says ext3 EA+ACL is now in the -mm tree. 3) Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour) Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7016.html Patch: http://opersys.com/ftp/pub/LTT/ExtraPatches/patch-ltt-linux-2.5.44-vanilla-021019-2.2.bz2 User tools: http://opersys.com/ftp/pub/LTT/TraceToolkit-0.9.6pre2.tgz 4) Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2) (LVM2 team) (in -ac tree) http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm 5) VM large page support (Many people) (in -mm tree) http://lse.sourceforge.net/ 6) Page table sharing (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken) (in -mm tree) http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7855063&list=35 (A newer version of which seems to be at:) http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6446.html 7) Kernel Probes/Dynamic Probes (IBM dprobes team, contact: Vamsi Krishna S) http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/dprobes 8) High resolution timers (George Anzinger, etc.) http://high-res-timers.sourceforge.net/ Linus has unresolved concerns with this one: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/3463.html 9) EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team) http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms 10) Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (Matt Robinson, LKCD team) Announce: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7060.html Code: http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/ 11) Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ 12) Kexec, luanch ELF format linux kernel from Linux (Eric W. Biederman) http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6584.html 13) USAGI IPv6 (Yoshifujy Hideyaki) ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/patch/ipsec/ 14) MMU-less processor support (Greg Ungerer) http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7027.html 15) sys_epoll (Davide Libenzi) homepage: http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html patch: http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/sys_epoll-2.5.44-0.5.diff Linus participated repeatedly in a thread on this one too, expressing concerns which (hopefully) have been addressed. See: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6428.html 16) Kernel Hooks (IBM kernel team, contact: Richard J. Moore.) http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/projects/kernelhooks/ 17) CD Recording/sgio patches (Jens Axboe) http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/axboe/patches/v2.5/2.5.44/ 18) In-kernel module loader (Rusty Russell.) http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6214.html 19) Unlimited groups patch (Tim Hockin.) Announce: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103524761319825&w=2 Patch set: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103524717119443&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103524761819834&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103524761619831&w=2 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103524761519829&w=2 ======================== Unresolved issues: ========================= 1) Kernel Probes (Vamsi Krishna S) Is this the same as dynamic probes? 2) Unified boot/parameter support (Rusty Russell) 3) Hotplug CPU removal (Rusty Russell) Patches are available under: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches But there are a lot of them, and it's not quite clear what to apply in what order. (I know Linus likes 'em broken up, but an description and a pointer to a roll-up patch would be nice for civilian testers. I moved the in-kernel module loader to the main list because I found an announcement posting for it.) 4) hyperthread-aware scheduler 5) connection tracking optimizations. No URLs to patch. Anybody want to come out in favor of these with an announcement and pointer to a version being suggested for inclusion? 6) IPSEC (David Miller, Alexy) 7) New CryptoAPI (James Morris) David S. Miller said: > No URLs, being coded as I type this :-) > > Some of the ipv4 infrastructure is in 2.5.44 Note, this may conflict with Yoshifuji Hideyaki's ipv6 ipsec stuff. If not, I'd like to collate or clarify the entries.) USAGI ipv6 is in the first section and this isn't because I have a URL to an existing patch to USAGI, and don't for this. I have no idea how much overlap there is between these projects, and whether they're considered parts of the same project or submitted individually... 8) ReiserFS 4 Hans Reiser said: > We will send Reiser4 out soon, probably around the 27th. > > Hans See also http://www.namesys.com/v4/fast_reiser4.html Hans and Jens Axboe are arguing about whether or not Reiser4 is a potential post-freeze addition. That thread starts here: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7140.html 9) 32bit dev_t Alan Cox said: > The big one missing is 32bit dev_t. Thats the killer item we have left. But did not provide a URL to a patch. :) He also mentioned: > Oh other one I missed - DVB layer - digital tv etc. Pretty much > essential now for europe, but again its basically all driver layer But it's not clear this is an item that must go in before feature freeze or not at all. 10) initramfs It may be on its way in already. See: http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/1110.html