Re: Linux 2.6.0

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Thu Dec 18 2003 - 00:34:21 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Andrew has written up some caveats and pointers to information about 2.4.x
vs 2.6.x changes, and I'll let him post that. Some known issues were not
considered to be release-critical and a number of them have pending fixes
in the -mm queue. Generally they just didn't have the kind of verification
yet where I was willing to take them in order to make sure a fair 2.6.0
release.


It's actually rather short because I started late. See below.

There are also the "must-fix" and "should-fix" lists of items which we have
identified as still on the 2.6 todo list. These are at

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix/must-fix-7.txt and
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix/should-fix-7.txt

Cheers, thanks, and a public salud, boss ;-)


- Please report any problems to the appropriate mailing list. If you do
not know which list to use, send the report to linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and it should reach the right person. Some active subsystem mailing lists
are:

linux1394-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxx
linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ext2-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
linux-usb-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

For networking, I request people mail

netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx


Alternatively, kernel bug reports may be entered into the kernel bug
tracking system at http://bugme.osdl.org/

I prefer the organization-agnostic

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/

;-)

FWIW it's more a defense against "osdl.org" domain name changes, than anything else... kernel.org will be around decades from now, IMO.


- The ATA RAID drivers (eg the HighPoint RAID driver) have not been ported
to the new BIO code and are not available under the 2.6 kernel at this
time.

These will appear as Device Mapper modules, Arjan has posted. I'm planning on digging my hands into some of that too, now that Promise has opened their softRAID spec a bit.

from the #3 networking beaver,

Jeff



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