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o in 2.5.69 New interrupt handling API (Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, etc.)
o in 2.5.70 USB gadget support (David Brownell, Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o in 2.5.71 Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Alan Cox)
o in -mm Anticipatory Scheduler (Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton)
o in -mm 64-bit dev_t (Andries Brouwer, Al Viro)
o in -mm Complete Fair Queueing (CFQ) disk scheduler (Jens Axboe, Andrea Arcangeli)
o in -osdl Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)
o before 2.6.0 Support insane number of groups (Tim Hockin)
o before 2.6.0 Worldclass support for IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetsov, Dave Miller, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)
o before 2.6.0 Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs team)
o before 2.6.0 Fix device naming issues (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o before 2.6.0 Change all drivers to new driver model (All maintainers)
o before 2.6.0 Improved AppleTalk stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o before 2.6.0 ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger)
o before 2.6.0 UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing) (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)
o before 2.6.0 Kexec, syscall to load kernel from kernel (Eric Biederman)
The full list of features being worked on is at:
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status
Feedback and corrections always welcome.
Cheers,
-- Guillaume