[STATUS 2.5] May 27, 2003

[STATUS 2.5] May 27, 2003

[Guillaume Boissiere]

The latest status update is available at: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status
Below the most relevant items.  As usual, corrections are welcome.  Enjoy!

-- Guillaume


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o in 2.5.63  POSIX timers  (George Anzinger)  
o in 2.5.65  Desktop Interactivity Improvements  (Linus Torvalds, Ingo Molnar)  
o in 2.5.69  New interrupt handling API  (Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, etc.)  
o in 2.5.70  USB gadget support  (David Brownell, Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
 
o in -mm  Anticipatory Scheduler  (Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton)  
o in -mm  64-bit dev_t  (Andries Brouwer, Al Viro)  
o in -mm  Complete Fair Queueing (CFQ) disk scheduler  (Jens Axboe, Andrea Arcangeli)  
o in -ac  Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile  (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Alan Cox)  
o in -osdl  Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT)  (Karim Yaghmour)  
 
o before 2.6.0  Support insane number of groups  (Tim Hockin)  
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  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  Improved AppleTalk stack  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)  
o before 2.6.0  ext2/ext3 online resize support  (Andreas Dilger)  
o before 2.6.0  UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)  
o before 2.6.0  Kexec, syscall to load kernel from kernel  (Eric Biederman)  

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