Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:48:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:48:20 -0500 Received: from 213-96-124-18.uc.nombres.ttd.es ([213.96.124.18]:14575 "HELO dardhal") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:48:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:47:53 +0100 From: Jose Luis Domingo Lopez To: Guillaume Boissiere Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [STATUS 2.5] January 17, 2001 Message-ID: <20020117214752.GA5085@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: Guillaume Boissiere , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3C463337.24593.CD1AD57@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3C463337.24593.CD1AD57@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, 17 January 2002, at 02:13:11 -0500, Guillaume Boissiere wrote: > I've seen several times on this list people wondering what features > were in the works for 2.5 and what the status of the development was. > I did some grepping on the archive and put together a list of things > that have been discussed / worked on for 2.5 over the past year or so. > Great !!!. I think this "todo list" was much needed. Let me suggest a couple of things that should find their way into 2.5.x sometime in the futute, and that I consider important: . Generic (VFS layer?) ACL implementation: it seems under heavy develpment by some groups, and could be something quite interesting to have for 2.6.x . Linux Security Module (LSM) . LVM 2: it seems LVM developers are about to release a first version of the new (version 2.0) LVM (Logical Volume Management) implementation for Linux. Seems to solve the problems current code base has. . devfs 2: new implementation of Richard Gooch's devfs for Linux. devfs is a "must have" for some people, and this new code seems to solve everything that people complained about. AFAIR, Richard has submitted several "cuts" of the new code. There are other interesting things I don't follow as closely, and that could be available when 2.5.x is still under development, maybe not. . reiserfs 4 (later this year): maybe too late for inclusion. . USAGI IPv6 implementation for Linux: maybe not ready for prime time. . NFS v4: have read about it, but don't remember about deadlines. . IPsec in kernel (FreeS/WAN): the neverending story :) That is what I think are the most important things that _could_ be part of future 2.6.0, should maintainers consider it as a good idea. Please, this is only informative, not trying to "sell" you nothing. Good work ! -- Jos? Luis Domingo L?pez Linux Registered User #189436 Debian Linux Woody (P166 64 MB RAM) jdomingo AT internautas DOT org => Spam at your own risk - 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/