New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (beat it up :)

From: Kenneth C. Arnold (kcarnold@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jun 04 2000 - 23:12:48 EST


Have a whack at ripping apart another edition of the [a?] Linux
2.5 - 2.6 TODO. I have started organizing the list under some
general categories, but it's not done (hence the Uncategorized).
I am requesting additions, deletions, etc. to reflect the current
view on what should go in and what shouldn't. If there are any things
that should not go in 2.5 - 2.6, but should wait for 2.7, say so too.
I have gotten offers about web space for this, and my free web server
is still messed up, so I might take you up on that.

Enough talk. It's attached inline (i.e., scroll down).

Kenneth

The Linux 2.5 / 2.6 TODO

Categories:
N Needed
I Important
W Wishlist

Drivers
-------
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>:
I Modularization of UDMA IDE drivers

James Simmons:
        Finish cleaning up the fbdev layer with a new api
        + Support cards with multiple frame buffers
        Incorporate Vojtechs input layer.
        Add real multihead support to the console system.

fs

--
W	Merge ext3
W	Merge ReiserFS
N	VFS changes

David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>: W HFS+

Architecture ------------

API ---

Features -------- Warren Young <tangent@cyberport.com>: I async io

Improvements ------------

Uncategorized: -------------- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>: "N!!!" dev_t resizing

N Documentation

Jan Evert van Grootheest <janevert@iae.nl>: W Kernel nanosecond timer support

I Get rid of SCSI host template I Handle replugging

Rik van Riel: Threaded dcache Better VM (http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/) fair scheduler (http://www.surriel.com/patches) (better) support for NUMA machines Add support to allocate very large chunks of continous memory after boot time.

Reorganize console code Migrate input devices to new API

Ben Greear: 802.1Q VLAN patch

Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>: The VLAN project at http://vlan.sourceforge.net (noted)

Jeff V. Merkey: <jmerkey@timpanogas.com> Logical block semantic for buffer cache Support mirrored writes in page cache Enable writes to concurrent devices in single commit_write() Replace NWFS LRU code with Linux buffer cache WorkToDo optimization for page cache/network layer Merge NWFS

David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>:

W ALSA (international) N IPsec N International Kernel-patches

Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>: Kernel timer review Removal of struct timer_struct Cleanup of legacy ISA net devices Userland interface for failover notification Sub-one-second target W Update net device initialization W Get rid of space.c W Maintain net drivers from ftp://sourceforge.org/pcmcia/contrib/

Peter Chubb <peterc@aurema.com>: N Make setrlimit() work for RLIMIT_RSS N Make getrusage() and wait4() work for more resources than just CPU

Bill Wendling <wendling@ganymede.isdn.uiuc.edu>: N/W O_DSYNC, O_RSYNC for POSIX compliance

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>: Merge flash & other memory device drivers (www.linux-mtd.infradead.org) FFS2 and JFFS flash filing systems PC speaker driver Kill sleep_on() et al. lm_sensors uCLinux User Mode Linux iBCS/ABI stuff loopback crypto secure RPC v4l2 (?)

Arne Thomassen <arneth@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>: W Replace kernel lock with fine-grain locks [probably not]

Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@intel.com>: {I,N} V4L drivers to return BGR data and not do other various data conversions {affects lots of apps} [questionable]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> N finish and merge userbeans (also write userlevel PAM code)

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