Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:45:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:45:37 -0400 Received: from tmr-02.dsl.thebiz.net ([216.238.38.204]:1550 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:45:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:43:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Davidsen To: Guillaume Boissiere cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6] The List, pass #2 In-Reply-To: <3D3761A9.23960.8EB1A2@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1879 Lines: 56 On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Guillaume Boissiere wrote: > I've reorganized the list into 5 categories based on the feedback > I received. Now let's see what happens :-) Much better format. > ---------------------------------------------------- > "The pressure is on! (TM)": > (either gets merged before feature freeze or has to wait till 2.7) > > o Rewrite of the console layer > o XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) Is this something which has not been forward ported from 2.4 to 2.5? Or is there a serious problem which hasn't bitten me? > ---------------------------------------------------- > Would be nice to have before feature freeze, but most likely 2.7: > > o Full compliance with IPv6 Hopefully the core parts of this could make 2.5, allowing final corrections later. > o Add support for NFS v4 Sorry to repeat, this seems to be a feature which will be in many if not most other systems before any possible release date for 2.8. Is it really that far out? (that's a status request, not a statement) > > ---------------------------------------------------- > Definitely 2.7: > > o InfiniBand support > o Add thrashing control > o Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel I really hope this means drivers MAY be used as modules, not MUST. There is some overhead in doing things as modules, and added complexity usually means "harder to debug." Particularly with modules where there can be corner conditions and races on [un]load. Again, thanks for the status! -- bill davidsen CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979. - 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/