Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:25:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:25:54 -0500 Received: from pop016pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.173]:15281 "EHLO pop016.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:25:52 -0500 From: "Guillaume Boissiere" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:33:31 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [STATUS 2.5] December 11, 2002 Message-ID: <3DF679CB.23987.80845E0@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 pop016.verizon.net from [64.152.17.166] at Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:33:32 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 8619 Lines: 131 The stabilization work has begun. One item of interest this week is the update to the new framebuffer/console API. Full list is available at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/ Also, with more people testing different configurations, the number of bugs in bugzilla has increased quite a big since last week. 80 and counting. Cheers, -- Guillaume --------------------------------- Linux Kernel 2.5 Status - December 11th, 2002 (Latest kernel release is 2.5.51) Items in bold have changed since last week. ... o in 2.5.48 In-kernel module loader (Rusty Russell) o in 2.5.51 Compatibility syscall layer (Stephen Rothwell) o in 2.5.51+ Rewrite of the console layer (James Simmons) o in -mm Page table sharing (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken) o in -osdl Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour) o in -osdl Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (Matt Robinson, LKCD team) o in -osdl High resolution timers (George Anzinger, etc.) o in -osdl Kernel Probes (kprobes) (Vamsi Krishna, kprobes team) o in -dcl NUMA aware scheduler extensions (Erich Focht, Michael Hohnbaum) 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: 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... 66 blo zaitcev@yahoo.com ASSI SMP Kernel Compile for Sparc32 fails 118 blo mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Load IDE-SCSI module causes OOPS in 2.5.49 123 blo alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI SiL 680 IDE controller has "issues" 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 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... 130 hig green@namesys.com ASSI problems mounting root partition with 2.5.48+ kernels 148 hig mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN keyboard doesn't work 157 hig mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Makefile bug? sound/synth/emux/built-in.o 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 ... 11 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Intermezzo Compile Failure 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 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 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 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 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 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. 100 nor johnstul@us.ibm.com ASSI LTP - gettimeofday02 fails (time is going backwards) 104 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN MIPS fails to build: asm/thread_info.h doesn't exist 105 nor johnstul@us.ibm.com ASSI gettimeofday cripples system running with notsc 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 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 0 138 nor khoa@us.ibm.com OPEN Build error: drivers/video/sis/sis_main.h:299: parse erro... 140 nor andmike@us.ibm.com OPEN isp1020 driver reports error 143 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk OPEN unable to read cd audio from atapi cdrom/cdrw/dvd device,... 144 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN error return not checked in register_disk (fs/partitions/... 145 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN ALSA: SB-AWE ISA detection fails 149 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN Laptop with touchpad and "pointer". Pointer never works 150 nor greg@kroah.com OPEN [PNP][2.5] IDE Detection problems (wrong IRQ and wrong ID... 151 nor axboe@suse.de OPEN compile failure on drivers/block/ps2esdi.c 153 nor rmk@arm.linux.org.uk OPEN compile failure on drivers/char/riscom8.c 154 nor rmk@arm.linux.org.uk OPEN compile failure on drivers/char/esp.c 155 nor rmk@arm.linux.org.uk OPEN compile failure on drivers/char/specialix.c 156 nor alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI compile failure on drivers/ide/pci/nvidia.c 158 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN depmod should be in README 159 nor mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN compile failure on drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net_lib.c 8 low alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ASSI i2o_scsi does not handle reset properly 20 low davej@codemonkey.org.uk OPEN Kernel AGP support needs to be initialized sooner 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 142 low mbligh@aracnet.com OPEN problem with ver_linux script and procps version 146 low akpm@digeo.com OPEN Assertion failure in do_get_write_access() at fs/jbd/tra... 152 low zippel@linux-m68k.org OPEN make xconfig dont work 80 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/