Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:56:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:56:43 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:60165 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 21:56:41 -0400 Message-ID: <3DB4B1B9.4070303@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:02:33 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: landley@trommello.org CC: Guillaume Boissiere , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Son of crunch time: the list v1.2. References: <20021021135137.2801edd2.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <3DB3AB3E.23020.5FFF7144@localhost> <200210211536.25109.landley@trommello.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5058 Lines: 157 Rob Landley wrote: > 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/ I support merge, Linus seemed to support it with the caveat that he said he didn't personally see much discussion... > 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 No comment other than I notice tytso's patches got dropped (at least once/twice?). Maybe viro hasn't reviewed them? IIRC viro had some objections to ACLs in general and how they might not necessarily actually improve security -- but I did not see detailed elaboration on this. > 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 I dunno if this needs to be in the kernel... > 4) Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2) (LVM2 team) (in -ac tree) > http://www.sistina.com/products_lvm.htm Needs sysfs support or devmapperfs support... no need to add a bunch of ioctls that will go away eventually. > 5) VM large page support (Many people) (in -mm tree) > http://lse.sourceforge.net/ Rob - this URL doesn't seen to have anything directly to do with large page support. Others- Is this not already in the kernel? I still want to actually see someone from Oracle actually say "I will use this" or "we find this useful". [I cynically propose a sys_oracle and be done with it ] > 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 IMO 2.7.x item... > 7) Dynamic Probes (dprobes team) > http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/dprobes why does this need to be the mainline kernel? this is another type of thing that can live as a patch, IMO... > 8) Zerocopy NFS (Hirokazu Takahashi) > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.1/0429.html this is already merged, isn't it?? > 9) High resolution timers (George Anzinger, etc.) > http://high-res-timers.sourceforge.net/ no comment, I've heard arguments that high-res timers would be useful, but haven't read the patch myself so won't comment... > 10) EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team) > http://sourceforge.net/projects/evms Sounds like 2.7.x material, viro pointed out several problems ... > 11) 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/ I would personally _love_ to see this merged, but I think it's 2.7.x material given the recent comments (unless they get fixed up) > 12) Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) > http://linuxconsole.sourceforge.net/ needs more review... but hasn't some of this stuff already made it in? (or am I thinking about fbdev...?) > 13) Kexec, luanch ELF format linux kernel from Linux (Eric W. Biederman) > http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6584.html Useful, but at the same time not many people will use this I think. It may need to live as a patch for a while, if not for a long while... > 14) USAGI IPv6. > > Yoshifuji Hideyaki points out that ipv6 is very important overseas > (where some entire countries make do with a single class B ipv4 > address range). He says: > > >>Well, our IPsec is ready, runs and is tested... >>ftp://ftp.linux-ipv6.org/pub/usagi/patch/ipsec/ The USAGI guys have been slowly splitting up their patches and submitting them... AFAIK DaveM is just waiting on more split-up IPv6 patches from them... > 17) Kernel Hooks (IBM kernel team, contact: Richard J. Moore.) > http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/projects/kernelhooks/ at first glance this seems to have serious issues with being a black hole for overriding syscalls-type behavior... > 19) In-kernel module loader (Rusty Russell.) > http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6214.html most likely 2.7.x material > 20) Unlimited groups patch (Tim Hockin.) I dunno if people want to take the hit in the mainline kernel... Maybe this should be a CONFIG_xxx option, or live outside as a patch that enterprise customers integrate > 8) ReiserFS 4 > > Hans Reiser said: > > >>We will send Reiser4 out soon, probably around the 27th. how mysterious... ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/