November 27, 2002

Things seem to be stabilizing quite a bit. No new features but tons of bug fixes have been merged. Below the list of what I have pending in the status list along with the 58 open bugs currently in Bugzilla
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/)

Full status list is at http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status

Enjoy!

-- Guillaume

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Linux Kernel 2.5 Status - November 27th, 2002
(Latest kernel release is 2.5.49)

o before 2.6.0  Rewrite of the console layer  (James Simmons)  
o before 2.6.0  Support insane number of groups  (Tim Hockin)  
o before 2.6.0  SCSI and FibreChannel Hotswap Support  (Steven Dake)  
o before 2.6.0  Worldclass support for IPv6  (Alexey Kuznetsov, Dave Miller, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)  
o before 2.6.0  Reiserfs v4  (Reiserfs team)  
o before 2.6.0  32bit dev_t  (Al Viro)  
o before 2.6.0  Fix device naming issues  (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
o before 2.6.0  Change all drivers to new driver model  (All maintainers)  
o before 2.6.0  USB gadget support  (Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
o before 2.6.0  Improved AppleTalk stack  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)  
o before 2.6.0  ext2/ext3 online resize support  (Andreas Dilger)  

BUGZILLA:

3  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   Enabling shared pagetables causes KDE to wierd out  
5  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   64GB highmem BUG()  
7  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   file lock accounting broken  
8  low  [email protected]  ASSI   i2o_scsi does not handle reset properly  
9  nor  [email protected]...  ASSI   Ehci do not leave system in a sensible state for bios on ...  
10  hig  [email protected]  ASSI   USB HCs may have improper interrupt configuration with AC...  
11  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Intermezzo Compile Failure  
13  blo  [email protected]  OPEN   user-mode-linux (ARCH=um) compile broken in 2.5.47  
15  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   No dma on first hard drive  
16  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   reproduceable oops in lock_get_status  
18  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Synaptics touchpad driver  
19  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   aty128fb does not compile  
20  low  [email protected]  OPEN   Kernel AGP support needs to be initialized sooner  
28  low  [email protected]  ASSI   Compile time warnings from starfire driver (with PAE enab...  
29  low  [email protected]  ASSI   Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at m...  
32  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   framebuffer drivers dont compile  
35  hig  [email protected]  OPEN   Riva Framebuffer doesn't compile  
36  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   Long tape rewind causes abort on aic7xxx  
37  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   IDE problems on old pre-PCI HW  
39  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   undefined reference to `boot_gdt_table'  
42  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   8139too ifconfig causes oops  
43  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   e100 drivers crashes on non cache-coherent platforms  
44  blo  [email protected]  OPEN   radeonfb does not compile at all - seems incomplete? or w...  
46  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Two mice: unwanted double-clicks & erratic behavior  
48  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   APM suspend and PCMCIA not cooperating  
49  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   register_console() called in illegal context  
51  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   isapnp does not register devices in /proc/isapnp  
52  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   aic7xxx driver fails to boot on netfinity 7000  
53  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   IDE cd-rom I/O error  
54  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   100% reproduceable "null TTY for (####) in tty_fasync"  
58  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   OHCI-1394: sleeping function called from illegal context ...  
63  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   compile error with CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE yes  
66  blo  [email protected]  ASSI   SMP Kernel Compile for Sparc32 fails  
69  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Framebuffer bug  
71  hig  [email protected]  ASSI   RTL8100BL (8139) do not work on acpi UP without local apic  
72  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Framebuffer scrolls at the wrong times/places  
78  low  [email protected]  ASSI   make dep on lk configuration exit  
79  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Framebuffer scrolling problem  
83  low  [email protected]  ASSI   Wish: ability to quickly cycle through (NEW) config options  
84  hig  [email protected]  ASSI   qconf crashes when setting default NLS  
89  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   writing to sysfs appears to hang  
94  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   file remain locked after sapdb process exist.  
100  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   LTP - gettimeofday02 fails (time is going backwards)  
102  hig  [email protected]  OPEN   Read from a raid 0 array failed.  
104  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   MIPS fails to build: asm/thread_info.h doesn't exist  
105  nor  [email protected]  ASSI   gettimeofday cripples system running with notsc  
106  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   sysfs hierarchy can begin to disintegrate  
110  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Current bk Linux-2.5, VFS Kernel Panic from Devfs + NO UN...  
111  hig  [email protected]  OPEN   hugetlbfs does not align pages  
113  hig  [email protected]  OPEN   CMD649 or ALI15X3 problem under 2.5.49 and since many pre...  
114  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   2.5.49 unable to mount XFS partition  
115  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   Kernel modules won't load  
116  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   all mounts oops  
117  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   build failure: arch/ppc/kernel/process.c  
118  hig  [email protected]  OPEN   Load IDE-SCSI module causes OOPS in 2.5.49  
119  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   2.5.49 - Dell Latitude weirdness at shutdown  
120  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   build fail  
122  nor  [email protected]  OPEN   emu10k1 OSS troubles  

58 bugs found.

Guillaume,

It appears that some minor problems with the SCSI and FibreChannel hotswap driver have caused it to be rejected by the SCSI maintainers at this time. Unforutnately I don't have much time before 2.6 releases to work on it, so I'd ask if you could move this to a 2.7 delivery.

Thanks!
-steve