[STATUS] Spring cleanup

[STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Guillaume Boissiere]

These four items have been marked as Ready or Pending for a while and yet nothing 
has happened for the last 2 months so I'm planning to change their status in the
next status update.
Comments?  Objections?

-- Guillaume



o Ready       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
--> Mark as Beta?  Reason: not in sync with latest kernel and problems with IBM Thinkpads

o Ready       New kernel config system: CML2                  (Eric Raymond)
--> Mark as Beta?  Reason: needs to be broken up in chunks before inclusion

o Ready       Read-Copy Update Mutual Exclusion               (Dipankar Sarma, Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli, LSE 
Team)
--> Mark as Beta?  Reason: patch exists against 2.5.7, but not sure if it needs more work 
    before inclusion or there is objection from Linus?

o Pending     Finalize new device naming convention           (Linus Torvalds)
--> ???  I am not sure what is going on here -- it seems Linus is waiting for someone to step up and 
    submit a patch following the new device naming convention he vaguely outlined a while back?

Re: [STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Jeff Garzik]

Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> o Ready       New kernel config system: CML2                  (Eric Raymond)
> --> Mark as Beta?  Reason: needs to be broken up in chunks before inclusion


I would say kbuild-2.5 appears to be beta and getting ready for Linus 
submittal.

Eric Raymond's CML2 has little chance of getting in the kernel, when he 
has consistently ignored threads of discussion relating to CML2, 
specifically feedback from Linus, myself, and others...  If he updates 
his CML2 per feedback, _then_ I would consider it beta and ready for 
inclusion.  Otherwise it is IMO D.O.A.

	Jeff

Re: [STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:31:46PM -0400, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> 
> o Pending     Finalize new device naming convention           (Linus Torvalds)
> --> ???  I am not sure what is going on here -- it seems Linus is
> waiting for someone to step up and submit a patch following the new
> device naming convention he vaguely outlined a while back?

People are slowly working on this, so I'd mark it "in development /
planning" or something like that.

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: [STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Tim Pepper]

On Wed 10 Apr at 19:03:54 -0700 greg@kroah.com done said:
> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:31:46PM -0400, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> > 
> > o Pending     Finalize new device naming convention           (Linus Torvalds)
> > --> ???  I am not sure what is going on here -- it seems Linus is
> > waiting for someone to step up and submit a patch following the new
> > device naming convention he vaguely outlined a while back?
> 
> People are slowly working on this, so I'd mark it "in development /
> planning" or something like that.

There's a big thread this week on linux-scsi about this wrt to scsi devices,
which is probably one of the places where it's more visible.

t.

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Re: [STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Guillaume Boissiere]

The answer is probably no but I'll ask anyway:  is there one or two people 
in particular working on this that I could list in my status page and a URL 
I could point to?
Thanks,

-- Guillaume


On 11 Apr 2002 at 13:06, Tim Pepper wrote:

> On Wed 10 Apr at 19:03:54 -0700 greg@kroah.com done said:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:31:46PM -0400, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> > > 
> > > o Pending     Finalize new device naming convention           (Linus Torvalds)
> > > --> ???  I am not sure what is going on here -- it seems Linus is
> > > waiting for someone to step up and submit a patch following the new
> > > device naming convention he vaguely outlined a while back?
> > 
> > People are slowly working on this, so I'd mark it "in development /
> > planning" or something like that.
> 
> There's a big thread this week on linux-scsi about this wrt to scsi devices,
> which is probably one of the places where it's more visible.
> 
> t.
> 
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Re: [STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Erik Tews]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:31:46PM -0400, Guillaume Boissiere wrote:
> These four items have been marked as Ready or Pending for a while and yet nothing 
> has happened for the last 2 months so I'm planning to change their status in the
> next status update.
> Comments?  Objections?
> 
> o Ready       Add hardware sensors drivers                    (lm_sensors team)
> --> Mark as Beta?  Reason: not in sync with latest kernel and problems with IBM Thinkpads

Does the lm_sensor-team has some more information about these
thinkpad-problems? I only know that they are announcing that you should
not use their software with ibm-thinkpads since more then a year and
that they will give you some more detailed information soon. The Problem
is of course that I own such a thinkpad.

Re: [STATUS] Spring cleanup

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> These four items have been marked as Ready or Pending for a while and yet nothing 
> has happened for the last 2 months so I'm planning to change their status in the
> next status update.
> Comments?  Objections?

BTW you are missing "merged in 2.5.5+" IDE rewrite by martin dalecki and 
vojtech pavlik. Its getting pretty big and cleans it up a lot.
								Pavel
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