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October 16, 2002

STATUS 2.5 Guillaume Boissiere 2 participants 2 messages Oct 16, 2002 – Oct 18, 2002

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Feature freeze in 2 weeks, patches flying around...
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

Enjoy!

-- Guillaume

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Linux Kernel 2.5 Status - October 16th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.43)

Items in bold have changed since last week. Items in grey are post Halloween (feature freeze).

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 2.5.5  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)  
o in 2.5.7+  ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)  (Andy Grover, ACPI team)  
o in 2.5.8  Syscall interface for CPU task affinity  (Robert Love)  
o in 2.5.8  Radix-tree pagecache  (Momchil Velikov, Christoph Hellwig)  
o in 2.5.9  Smarter IRQ balancing  (Ingo Molnar)

o in 2.5.11 Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver (Anton Altaparmakov)
o in 2.5.11 Fast walk dcache (Hanna Linder)
o in 2.5.11+ Rewrite of the framebuffer layer (James Simmons)
o in 2.5.12+ Rewrite of the buffer layer (Andrew Morton)

o in 2.5.14  Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing)  (Jens Axboe)  
o in 2.5.14  Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!)  (Maxim Krasnyansky, Bluetooth team)  
o in 2.5.17  New quota system supporting plugins  (Jan Kara)

o in 2.5.17+ Move ISDN4Linux to CAPI based interface (Kai Germaschewski, ISDN4Linux team)
o in 2.5.18 Software suspend (to disk & RAM) (Pavel Machek)
o in 2.5.23 More complete IEEE 802.2 stack (Arnaldo, Jay Schullist, from Procom donated code)
o in 2.5.23+ Hotplug CPU support (Rusty Russell)
o in 2.5.25 Faster internal kernel clock frequency (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.26 Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O (Andrew Morton)
o in 2.5.27+ New VM with reverse mappings (Rik van Riel)
o in 2.5.28+ Serial driver restructure (Russell King)
o in 2.5.28 Remove the "Big IRQ lock" (Ingo Molnar)

o in 2.5.29+  Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support  (Ingo Molnar)  
o in 2.5.29+  Add Linux Security Module (LSM)  (LSM team)  
o in 2.5.29+  Strict address space accounting  (Alan Cox)  
o in 2.5.31+  Disk description cleanups  (Al Viro)

o in 2.5.31 Support insane number of processes (Linus Torvalds)
o in 2.5.32 New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver (Patrick Mochel)
o in 2.5.32+ Porting all input devices over to input API (Vojtech Pavlik, James Simmons)
o in 2.5.32+ Asynchronous IO (aio) support (Ben LaHaise)
o in 2.5.32+ Improved POSIX threading support (Ingo Molnar)

o in 2.5.33  SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)  (lksctp team)  
o in 2.5.33  TCP segmentation offload  (Alexey Kuznetsov)  
o in 2.5.34  discontigmem support (ia32)  (Pat Gaughen, Martin Bligh, Jack Steiner, Tony Luck)  
o in 2.5.34  POSIX threading support for signals  (Ingo Molnar)  
o in 2.5.35  Add User-Mode Linux (UML)  (Jeff Dike)  
o in 2.5.35  Serial ATA support  (Andre Hedrick)  
o in 2.5.36  Add XFS (A journaling filesystem from SGI)  (XFS team)  
o in 2.5.37  Remove the global tasklist  (Ingo Molnar, William Lee Irwin)  
o in 2.5.39  New IO scheduler  (Jens Axboe)  
o in 2.5.40  Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling  (Dominik Brodowski, Erik Mouw, Dave Jones, Russell King, Arjan van 
de Ven)  
o in 2.5.40  NUMA topology support  (Matt Dobson)  
o in 2.5.40  Parallelizing page replacement  (Andrew Morton, Momchil Velikov, Dave Hansen, William Lee Irwin)  
o in 2.5.42  Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer  (Alan Cox)  
o in 2.5.42  Remove the 2TB block device limit  (Peter Chubb)  
o in 2.5.42  Add new CIFS (Common Internet File System)  (Steve French)  
o in 2.5.43  Add support for NFS v4  (NFS v4 team, Trond Myklebust, Neil Brown)  
o in 2.5.43  Read-Copy Update (RCU) Mutual Exclusion  (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE Team)  
o in 2.5.43  Add OProfile, a low-overhead profiler  (John Levon)  
o in -ac  PCMCIA Zoom video support  (Alan Cox)  
o in -ac  Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2)  (LVM2 team)  
o in -mm  VM large page support  (Many people)  
o in -mm  ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index  (Daniel Phillips, Christopher Li, Andrew Morton, Ted Ts'o)  
o in -mm  Page table sharing  (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken)  
o Ready  Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)  (Karim Yaghmour)  
o Ready  Dynamic Probes  (dprobes team)  
o Ready  Zerocopy NFS  (Hirokazu Takahashi)  
o Ready  High resolution timers  (George Anzinger, etc.)  
o Ready  EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)  (EVMS team)  
o Ready  x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling  (Matt Domsch)  
o Ready  Linux Kernel Crash Dumps  (Matt Robinson, LKCD team)  
o Ready  Rewrite of the console layer  (James Simmons)  
o Beta  Full compliance with IPv6  (Alexey Kuznetsov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)  
o Beta  ext2/ext3 online resize support  (Andreas Dilger)  
o Beta  UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)  
o Beta  Add hardware sensors drivers  (lm_sensors team)  
o Beta  New Linux configuration system  (Roman Zippel)  
o Beta  Plug'N Play Layer Rewrite  (Adam Belay)  
o Beta  NUMA aware scheduler extensions  (Erich Focht)  
o Alpha  Scalable Statistics Counter  (Ravikiran Thirumalai)  
o Alpha  Basic NUMA API  (Matt Dobson)  
o Alpha  Remove waitqueue heads from kernel structures  (William Lee Irwin)  
o Alpha  New lightweight library (klibc)  (H. Peter Anvin)  
o Alpha  Reiserfs v4  (Reiserfs team)  
o Alpha  Replace initrd by initramfs  (H. Peter Anvin, Al Viro)  
o Alpha  NUMA aware slab allocator  (Manfred Spraul, Martin Bligh)

o Started Make AppleTalk use shared skbs and refcounting (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Started SCSI multipath IO (with NUMA support) (Patrick Mansfield, Mike Anderson)

o Post-freeze  Change all drivers to new driver model  (All maintainers)  
o Post-freeze  Fix device naming issues  (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
o Post-freeze  Better event logging for enterprise systems  (Larry Kessler, evlog team)  
o Post-freeze  Page table reclamation  (William Lee Irwin, Rik Van Riel)  
o Post-freeze  UMSDOS (Unix under MS-DOS) Rewrite  (Al Viro)  
o Post-freeze  USB gadget support  (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
o Post-freeze  Overhaul PCMCIA support  (David Woodhouse, David Hinds)  
o Post-freeze  InfiniBand support  (InfiniBand team)  
o Post-freeze  Per-mountpoint read-only, union-mounts, unionfs  (Al Viro)  
o Post-freeze  More complete NetBEUI stack  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, from Procom donated code)  
o Post-freeze  New mount API  (Al Viro)  
o Post-freeze  Add thrashing control  (Rik van Riel)  
o Post-freeze  Remove all hardwired drivers from kernel  (Alan Cox, etc.)

Cleanups:

Merged

o in 2.5.3  Break Configure.help into multiple files  (Linus Torvalds)  
o in 2.5.3  Untangle sched.h & fs.h include 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 in 2.5.18+  ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes  (Al Viro)  
o in 2.5.21  Split up x86 setup.c into managable pieces  (Patrick Mochel)  
o in 2.5.23+  Major MD tool (RAID 5) cleanup  (Neil Brown)  
o in 2.5.31  Rework datalink protocols to not use cli/sti  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)  
o in 2.5.31  Remove incomplete SPX network stack  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)  
o in 2.5.43  Remove kiobufs  (Andrew Morton)

o in -mm Avoid dcache_lock while path walking (Maneesh Soni, IBM team)

o Ready Switch to ->get_super() for file_system_type (Al Viro)

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 Reorder x86 initialization (Dave Jones, Randy Dunlap)