Re: 2.6: Shortlist of Missing Features

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

In message <200210202144.59787.landley@trommello.org> you write:
> Sigh.  If great minds think alike, how do you explain either of us then? =
> :)

"Fools never differ" perhaps?

I'm not worried about stuff which is in -mm: they won't get lost, and
some of them will get thrown out if the benchmarks don't pay off.

> o in -ac PCMCIA Zoom video support (Alan Cox)=20
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.1/0326.html

Hmm... is this merely a new driver or significant new infrastructure?

> o Ready - Dynamic Probes (dprobes team)=20
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux/projects/dpro=
> bes

The minimal kernel part of this is kprobes.

> o Ready - Zerocopy NFS (Hirokazu Takahashi)=20
> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0204.1/0429.html

This is really up to Dave.  I thought he was already merging it?

> And In a reply to me, Hans Reiser promised Reiser 4 by the 27th.  (That's=

Another filesystem can go in during the freeze, unless it makes
infrastructure changes?

Rusty.
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