From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262507AbTJJGV4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:21:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262508AbTJJGV4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:21:56 -0400 Received: from 202-47-55-78.adsl.gil.com.au ([202.47.55.78]:34946 "HELO longlandclan.hopto.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262507AbTJJGVy (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Oct 2003 02:21:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3F864F82.4050509@longlandclan.hopto.org> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:19:46 +1000 From: Stuart Longland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephan von Krawczynski CC: lgb@lgb.hu, Fabian.Frederick@prov-liege.be, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.7 thoughts References: <20031009115809.GE8370@vega.digitel2002.hu> <20031009165723.43ae9cb5.skraw@ithnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20031009165723.43ae9cb5.skraw@ithnet.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.7.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > * hotplug CPU > * hotplug RAM * hotplug motherboard & entire computer too I spose ;-) Although sarcasm aside, a couple of ideas that have been bantered around on this list (and a few of my own ideas): - /proc interface alternative to modutils/module-init-tools. That is, to have a directory of virtual nodes in /proc to provide the functionality of insmod, rmmod, lsmod & modprobe would be great -- especially from the viewpoint of recue disk images, etc. - Software RAID 0+1 perhaps? A lot of hardware RAID cards support it, why not the kernel? By RAID 0+1 I mean mirror-RAIDing two (or more) stripe-RAID arrays. (Or can this be done already?) - Transparent Software-RAID for IDE RAID cards... This could be done by using the Software RAID functionality of the kernel, but making the RAID interface transparent, so you only see a /dev/md? device, rather than multiple /dev/?da* entries. - Support for the Casio DV-01 USB digital notetaker. Just some thoughts... And I spose, a few people have mentioned this already, what is planned for Linux 3.0? - -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org | | Brisbane Mesh Node: 719 http://stuartl.cjb.net/ | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | | Griffith Student No: Course: Bachelor/IT (Nathan) | +-------------------------------------------------------------+ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/hk+GIGJk7gLSDPcRArgVAJ0ZPJMRkMiFrGBBVVmL180fuZq2AACdFpCh XjqIDsrAfvIYZgxipX3THdY= =mRNi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----