Re: Linux 2.0 and 2.1 stability..

David Woodhouse (dwmw2@cam.ac.uk)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 02:43:58 +0000

linker@nightshade.z.ml.org said:
> Okay.. I'm curious, what major feature of 2.2 are we going to tell the
> users about? I doubt they care about the new exception handling or the
> dcache.. Saying Faster seems to take care of that...

Plug 'n Play and the PC Speaker driver definitely come at the top of my wish
list for 2.2. The latter is stable on 2.1.59-VGER-CVS971020 with SMP, at least
here. The former is a bit too fundamental to be included at this stage, so I
suppose it'll be 2.3, unfortunately. I expected it in 2.1 a long time ago, but
was disappointed.

Then there's NFS, NTFS, Joliet, FAT32.
Oh, and Michael Chastain's Makefile patches to make CONFIG_SMP a proper config
option.