I'm down to 8 undecided features: 6 removed and one I missed earlier.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/2.6-not-in-yet
(Reproduced below.)
Removed ("vendor-driven" == "no", for purposes of the freeze)
Linux Trace Toolkit: "no"
statfs64: noone seems to be pushing
ext2/3 ACLs & EA: included
Crash Dumper: "no"
Hi-res Timers: "no"
SCSI and FibreChannel Hotswap: "via. maintainers but probably not"
Added:
Nanosecond Time Patch
Linus, are you going to appoint [davej] someone [davej] to help you
[davej] hold the freeze? It'd be nice if someone [davej] else had to
pre-approve or co-approve patches before they went in.
I don't really care who the somebody [davej] is.
Rusty.
-- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.Entrance criteria:
* Must have been submitted to lkml in the last month, * Hasn't been rejected by the maintainer/Linus, * Not appropriate for insertion during stable series (ie. too invasive, new feature, breaks userspace)
Key: A: Author M: lkml posting describing patch D: Download URL S: Size of patch, number of files altered (source/config), number of new files. X: Impact summary (only parts of patch which alter existing source files, not config/make files) T: Diffstat of whole patch N: Random notes
In rough order of invasiveness (number of altered source files): In-kernel Module Loader and Unified parameter support A: Rusty Russell D: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches/Module/ S: 841 kbytes, 290/48 files altered, 22 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (597k) N: Requires new modutils
Nanosecond Time Patch A: Andi Kleen M: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0210.3/0793.html D: ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/v2.5/nsec-2.5.44-2.bz2 S: 194 kbytes, 158/0 files altered, 0 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (181k) N: The core of this patch is tiny: putting nanoseconds into filesystems is the bulk of this patch.
Fbdev Rewrite A: James Simmons M: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0111.3/1267.html D: http://phoenix.infradead.org/~jsimmons/fbdev.diff.gz S: 2320 kbytes, 131/20 files altered, 40 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (401k)
ucLinux Patch (MMU-less support) A: Greg Ungerer M: http://lwn.net/Articles/11016/ D: http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.5.x/linux-2.5.45-uc1.patch.gz S: 2202 kbytes, 25/13 files altered, 427 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (43k) N: Linus said looks good.
POSIX Timer API A: George Anzinger M: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103553654329827&w=2 D: http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/high-res-timers/hrtimers-posix-2.5.45-1.0.patch S: 66 kbytes, 18/1 files altered, 4 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (21k)
Hotplug CPU Removal Support A: Rusty Russell D: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches/Hotcpu/hotcpu-cpudown.patch.gz S: 32 kbytes, 16/0 files altered, 0 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (29k)
initramfs A: Al Viro / Jeff Garzik M: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2001-30/0110.html D: ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/N0-initramfs-C21 S: 16 kbytes, 5/1 files altered, 2 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (5k) N: Linus says he wants it.
Kernel Probes A: Vamsi Krishna S M: lists.insecure.org/linux-kernel/2002/Aug/1299.html D: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/patches/Misc/kprobes.patch.gz S: 18 kbytes, 3/3 files altered, 4 new T: Diffstat X: Summary patch (5k) - 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/
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