Unfixed and definitely needing fixes
o TCP slow performance problem is still not merged from DaveM
o Run two processes that keep rejoining multicast groups on an
SMP box - crash
o Spam the box remotely with syn floods and other crap, it leaks
memory
o select/poll magically break at some number of handles without
an error
o Procfs has locking errors on mm's
o IDE probe often guesses wrong. Linux is impossible to install
on these ranges of PCs. Needs fixing badly.
o isdn4linux is old not CVS version. Basically unusable. If its
not changing for 2.2.0 it should be commented out or deleted
o eata-dma driver crashes the machine if at any instant it cant
grab atomic isa dma memory. (Possible fix mark it obsolete and
use eata.c which works fine)
o Video4linux bttv tends to crash machines grabbing - fix around
needs merging and the driver updating
o You can't mount an ext2fs cdrom. (Block size error). Works in 2.0
o generic_file_mmap and MSDOS/UMSDOS disagree over who clears
blocks
o bootp autobooting stuff corrupts other hosts arp stuff it seems
o DaveM reports a pile of VMA operations done without locks held.
o IDE defaults to multimode on causing serial problems, corruption
with some drives, and hangs on boot with others.
o Dual 486 boards won't boot SMP kernels
o Tulip driver/fast routing stuff needs to be resolved. If they cant
be merged the default tulip should be a current one.
Unfixed but not vital
o NFS client over tcp doesnt work
o NFS readahead is too low
o NFS performance to 8K page sized BSD boxes sucks rocks, 2.0.x
is about 5 times faster
o Linus VM is still 20% slower than sct vm on an 8Mb machine
[benchmarks kernel build and netscape]
o fchmod on AF_UNIX sockets doesnt work like BSD
o IPv6 calls set_multicast_list in the wrong context
o TCP fails to handle small SO_SNDBUF/RCVBUF settings
o Make xconfig needs layout fixes
o Need to review all CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL tags
Fixed in -ac patches
For Linus:
o AVL tree vm avoids bad perfomance problems
o MediaGX crashes on boot
o Certain numbers of scsi disks dont seem to work
o VFS clears setuid/gid flags wrongly on directories
o COSA credited twice
o string.h egcs fixes
o Some further time fixes
o Various time fixes submitted
o KNFSD patches. With them knfsd seems to work ok. With the current
tree it doesnt work at all. Probably this is "Experimental for 2.2"
o AMD stepping ident, K6 ident
o What the hell is going on in time.c, on a low memory box picking
586 gives better performance for a 486 and several other chips
without TSC registers. That patch piece is a bad way to save 1K
o Various config combinations don't build
o FTAPE doesnt work in .132/2.2.0pre
o Various of the time_* changes to net/* are one out
o Ted's last serial patch is missing (setserial crashes box)
o IBMMCA doesnt work on the model 77 internal scsi
o Trond's last NFS fix
o include/linux/sysctl.h is exposed to user tasks even with glibc,
but isnt strictly ANSI compliant
o SYS5 shm debugging slows stuff down measurably -ifdef it
o DVD's trip an isofs sanity check wrongly
Unsure:
o Large file array support (will be required by vendors for several
big name products). This is a tricky one. Im wearing too many hats
to judge this objectively. Vendors will probably ship this anyway
or something similar.
Linus doesnt want:
o QlogicFC - no big problem, its seperate its clean and vendors
can ship it and other driver addons easily as they do now. Its a
nobrainer to install of the net.
Stale ?:
o ADFS updates
o Load unversioned modules into versioned kernels when doing
request_module etc.
o Crashes and zero page scribbles using ptrace.
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