Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:11:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:11:53 -0500 Received: from pop015pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.172]:44684 "EHLO pop015.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 15:11:50 -0500 From: "Guillaume Boissiere" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:18:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [STATUS 2.5] December 4, 2002 Message-ID: <3DEE1CD4.3794.8F165F3@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH LOGIN at pop015.verizon.net from [64.152.17.166] at Wed, 4 Dec 2002 14:19:14 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6596 Lines: 97 Of note this week the merge of the syscall compatibility layer. Also more bug reports in bugzilla (http://bugme.odsl.org/), which probably means more people are testing 2.5 these days. Full status list is at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/ Please let me know if anything is inaccurate or missing. Cheers, -- Guillaume -------------------------------------- Linux Kernel 2.5 Status - December 4th, 2002 (Latest kernel release is 2.5.50) o before 2.6.0 Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) 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 32bit dev_t (Al Viro) 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 USB gadget support (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman) o before 2.6.0 Improved AppleTalk stack (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) o before 2.6.0 ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas Dilger) BUGZILLA (bugs ordered by severity level): 13 blo mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN user-mode-linux (ARCH=um) compile broken in 2.5.47 44 blo khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN radeonfb does not compile at all - seems incomplete? or w... 118 blo mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Load IDE-SCSI module causes OOPS in 2.5.49 66 blo zaitcev@yahoo.com ASSI SMP Kernel Compile for Sparc32 fails 123 blo alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI SiL 680 IDE controller has "issues" 35 hig mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Riva Framebuffer doesn't compile 111 hig wli@holomorphy.com OPEN hugetlbfs does not align pages 113 hig alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk OPEN CMD649 or ALI15X3 problem under 2.5.49 and since many pre... 129 hig greg@kroah.com OPEN usb-storage crashes my pc when i plug in a SIIG Compact F... 10 hig andrew.grover@intel.com ASSI USB HCs may have improper interrupt configuration with AC... 71 hig andrew.grover@intel.com ASSI RTL8100BL (8139) do not work on acpi UP without local apic 84 hig zippel@linux-m68k.org ASSI qconf crashes when setting default NLS 130 hig green@namesys.com ASSI problems mounting root partition with 2.5.48+ kernels 11 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Intermezzo Compile Failure 18 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Synaptics touchpad driver 19 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN aty128fb does not compile 32 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN framebuffer drivers dont compile 46 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Two mice: unwanted double-clicks & erratic behavior 48 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN APM suspend and PCMCIA not cooperating 49 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN register_console() called in illegal context 54 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN 100% reproduceable "null TTY for (####) in tty_fasync" 58 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN OHCI-1394: sleeping function called from illegal context ... 63 nor wli@holomorphy.com OPEN compile error with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE yes 69 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Framebuffer bug 72 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN Framebuffer scrolls at the wrong times/places 79 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN Framebuffer scrolling problem 94 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN file remain locked after sapdb process exist. 104 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN MIPS fails to build: asm/thread_info.h doesn't exist 106 nor mochel@osdl.org OPEN sysfs hierarchy can begin to disintegrate 110 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN Current bk Linux-2.5, VFS Kernel Panic from Devfs + NO UN... 115 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Kernel modules won't load 116 nor rth@twiddle.net OPEN all mounts oops 117 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN build failure: arch/ppc/kernel/process.c 119 nor andrew.grover@intel.com OPEN 2.5.49 - Dell Latitude weirdness at shutdown 122 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN emu10k1 OSS troubles 126 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN bzImage build failure on input devices support as module 128 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN 2.5.50 CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP fails to build without 131 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk OPEN "hda: lost interrupt"; "hda: dma_intr: bad DMA status" on... 132 nor acme@conectiva.com.br OPEN windows ip check ARP packet replied by kernel when proxy_... 134 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN 2.5.50 breaks pcmcia cards 135 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN SB16/Alsa doesn't work 136 nor akpm@digeo.com OPEN FSID returned from statvfs always 0 5 nor mbligh@aracnet.com ASSI 64GB highmem BUG() 7 nor willy@debian.org ASSI file lock accounting broken 9 nor dbrownell@users.sourceforge... ASSI Ehci do not leave system in a sensible state for bios on ... 15 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI No dma on first hard drive 16 nor willy@debian.org ASSI reproduceable oops in lock_get_status 36 nor andmike@us.ibm.com ASSI Long tape rewind causes abort on aic7xxx 37 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI IDE problems on old pre-PCI HW 39 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI undefined reference to `boot_gdt_table' 42 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI 8139too ifconfig causes oops 43 nor jgarzik@pobox.com ASSI e100 drivers crashes on non cache-coherent platforms 51 nor paul@laufernet.com ASSI isapnp does not register devices in /proc/isapnp 52 nor andmike@us.ibm.com ASSI aic7xxx driver fails to boot on netfinity 7000 53 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI IDE cd-rom I/O error 100 nor johnstul@us.ibm.com ASSI LTP - gettimeofday02 fails (time is going backwards) 105 nor johnstul@us.ibm.com ASSI gettimeofday cripples system running with notsc 20 low khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN Kernel AGP support needs to be initialized sooner 8 low alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI i2o_scsi does not handle reset properly 28 low jgarzik@pobox.com ASSI Compile time warnings from starfire driver (with PAE enab... 29 low akpm@digeo.com ASSI Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at m... 78 low zippel@linux-m68k.org ASSI make dep on lk configuration exit 83 low zippel@linux-m68k.org ASSI Wish: ability to quickly cycle through (NEW) config options 63 bugs found. - 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/