Guillaume, could you add an entry for UDF on CDRW write support that Jens Axboe intents to merge in 2.5 (see url). http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101583526325962&w=2 Thanks, Christophe On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:39:12AM -0500, Guillaume Boissiere wrote: > The latest status update for the 2.5 series is available at > http://kernelnewbies.org/status/ with links for each item. > > Of note since last week is the merge of NAPI, which is a way > to deal with high network packet load -- networking drivers > authors may want to take a look at the porting guide. > Also merged is a big ACPI patch, which should pave the way > for better power management in Linux. > > As usual, please let me know of anything incorrect or missing. > Cheers, > > -- Guillaume > > ------------------------------------------ > Kernel 2.5 status - March 20th, 2002 > (Latest kernel release is 2.5.7) > > > Features: > > Merged > o in 2.5.1+ Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer (Jens Axboe) > o in 2.5.2 Initial support for USB 2.0 (David > Brownell, Greg Kroah-Hartman, etc.) > o in 2.5.2 Per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups (Al Viro, > Manfred Spraul) > o in 2.5.2+ New scheduler for improved scalability (Ingo Molnar) > o in 2.5.2+ New kernel device structure (kdev_t) (Linus > Torvalds, etc.) > o in 2.5.3 IDE layer update (Andre > Hedrick) > o in 2.5.3 Support reiserfs external journal (Reiserfs > team) > o in 2.5.3 Generic ACL (Access Control List) support (Nathan Scott) > o in 2.5.3 PnP BIOS driver (Alan Cox, > Thomas Hood, Dave Jones, etc.) > o in 2.5.3+ New driver model & unified device tree (Patrick > Mochel) > o in 2.5.4 Add preempt kernel option (Robert Love, > MontaVista team) > o in 2.5.4 Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading (NGPT team) > o in 2.5.4+ Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech > Pavlik, James Simmons) > o in 2.5.5 Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) (ALSA team) > o in 2.5.5 Pagetables in highmem support (Ingo Molnar, > Arjan van de Ven) > o in 2.5.5 New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64) (Andi Kleen, > x86-64 Linux team) > o in 2.5.5 New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64) (Anton > Blanchard, ppc64 team) > o in 2.5.6 Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM) (JFS team) > o in 2.5.6 per_cpu infrastructure (Rusty > Russell) > o in 2.5.6 HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update (Krzysztof > Halasa) > o in 2.5.6 smbfs Unicode and large file support (Urban > Widmark) > o in 2.5.7 New driver API for Wireless Extensions (Jean > Tourrilhes) > o in 2.5.7 Video for Linux (V4L) redesign (Gerd Knorr) > o in 2.5.7 Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores) (Rusty > Russell, etc.) > o in 2.5.7+ NAPI network interrupt mitigation (Jamal Hadi > Salim, Robert Olsson, Alexey Kuznetsov) > * in 2.5.7+ ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) (Andy Grover, > ACPI team) > > o Pending Finalize new device naming convention (Linus > Torvalds) > o in -dj Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James > Simmons) > * in -ac Strict address space accounting (Alan Cox) > * in -ac PCMCIA Zoom video support (Alan Cox) > > o Ready Add hardware sensors drivers (lm_sensors > team) > o Ready New kernel config system: CML2 (Eric Raymond) > o Ready Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion (Dipankar > Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team) > o Ready Better event logging for enterprise systems (Larry > Kessler, evlog team) > o Ready New quota system supporting plugins (Jan Kara) > > o Beta New kernel build system (kbuild 2.5) (Keith Owens) > o Beta Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling (Erik Mouw, > Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van de Ven) > o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King) > o Beta New IO scheduler (Jens Axboe) > o Beta Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI) (XFS team) > o Beta New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel) > o Beta Fix long-held locks for low scheduling latency (Andrew > Morton, Robert Love, etc.) > o Beta Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim > Yaghmour) > o Beta Add Linux Security Module (LSM) (LSM team) > o Beta Hotplug CPU support (Rusty > Russell) > o Beta Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs (Al Viro) > o Beta EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System) (EVMS team) > o Beta LVM (Logical Volume Manager) v2.0 (LVM team) > o Beta Linux booting ELF images (Eric > Biederman) > o Beta First pass at LinuxBIOS support (Eric > Biederman) > o Beta Dynamic Probes (Suparna > Bhattacharya, dprobes team) > o Beta Scalable CPU bitmasks (Russ Weight) > o Beta Page table sharing (Daniel > Phillips) > o Beta Rewrite of the console layer (James > Simmons) > o Beta ext2/ext3 online resize support (Andreas > Dilger) > o Beta Radix-tree pagecache (Momchil > Velikov, Christoph Hellwig) > o Beta Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton > Altaparmakov) > o Beta Fast walk dcache (Hanna Linder) > o Beta Add User-Mode Linux (UML) (Jeff Dike) > > o Alpha Better support of high-end NUMA machines (NUMA team) > o Alpha Add Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise) > o Alpha Overhaul PCMCIA support (David > Woodhouse, David Hinds) > o Alpha More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay > Schullist, from Procom donated code) > o Alpha Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey > Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team) > o Alpha UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite (Al Viro) > o Alpha Scalable Statistics Counter (Ravikiran > Thirumalai) > o Alpha Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (Matt > Robinson, LKCD team) > o Alpha Add support for NFS v4 (NFS v4 team) > o Alpha ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index (Daniel > Phillips, Christopher Li, Ted Ts'o) > o Alpha Delayed disk block allocation (Andrew > Morton) > * Alpha Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer (Alan Cox) > > o Started More complete NetBEUI stack (Arnaldo > Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code) > o Started Remove use of the BKL (Big Kernel Lock) (Alan Cox, > Robert Love, Neil Brown, etc.) > o Started Change all drivers to new driver model (All > maintainers) > o Started Reiserfs v4 (Reiserfs > team) > o Started Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface (ISDN4Linux > team) > > o Draft #2 New lightweight library (klibc) (Greg Kroah- > Hartman) > o Draft #3 Replace initrd by initramfs (H. Peter > Anvin, Al Viro) > o Planning Add thrashing control (Rik van Riel) > o Planning Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel (Alan Cox, > etc.) > o Planning Generic parameter/command line interface (Keith Owens) > o Planning New mount API (Al Viro) > o Planning New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Dave Jones) > > > Cleanups: > > Merged > o in 2.5.3 Break Configure.help into multiple files (Linus > Torvalds) > o in 2.5.3 Untangle include file dependancies (Dave Jones, > Roman Zippel) > o in 2.5.4 Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h (Arnaldo > Carvalho de Melo) > o in 2.5.4 Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h (Daniel > Phillips, Jeff Garzik, Al Viro) > o in 2.5.6 Killing kdev_t for block devices (Al Viro) > > o Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro) > o Ready ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes (Al Viro) > o Ready Remove dcache_lock (Maneesh > Soni, IBM team) > > o Beta file.h and INIT_TASK (Benjamin > LaHaise) > o Beta Proper UFS fixes, ext2 and locking cleanups (Al Viro) > o Beta Lifting limitations on mount(2) (Al Viro) > > o Started Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces (Dave Jones, > Randy Dunlap) > o Started Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones, > Randy Dunlap) > > Have some free time and want to help? 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