From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264391AbTLRFcE (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:32:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264396AbTLRFcE (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:32:04 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:50896 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264391AbTLRFb7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:31:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE13BC3.2000101@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 00:31:47 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0 References: <20031217211516.2c578bab.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031217211516.2c578bab.akpm@osdl.org> 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 Andrew Morton wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >>Andrew has written up some caveats and pointers to information about 2.4.x >> vs 2.6.x changes, and I'll let him post that. Some known issues were not >> considered to be release-critical and a number of them have pending fixes >> in the -mm queue. Generally they just didn't have the kind of verification >> yet where I was willing to take them in order to make sure a fair 2.6.0 >> release. > > > It's actually rather short because I started late. See below. > > There are also the "must-fix" and "should-fix" lists of items which we have > identified as still on the 2.6 todo list. These are at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix/must-fix-7.txt and > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/must-fix/should-fix-7.txt Cheers, thanks, and a public salud, boss ;-) > - Please report any problems to the appropriate mailing list. If you do > not know which list to use, send the report to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > and it should reach the right person. Some active subsystem mailing lists > are: > > linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com > linux-acpi@intel.com > linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org > ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net For networking, I request people mail netdev@oss.sgi.com > Alternatively, kernel bug reports may be entered into the kernel bug > tracking system at http://bugme.osdl.org/ I prefer the organization-agnostic http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ ;-) FWIW it's more a defense against "osdl.org" domain name changes, than anything else... kernel.org will be around decades from now, IMO. > - The ATA RAID drivers (eg the HighPoint RAID driver) have not been ported > to the new BIO code and are not available under the 2.6 kernel at this > time. These will appear as Device Mapper modules, Arjan has posted. I'm planning on digging my hands into some of that too, now that Promise has opened their softRAID spec a bit. from the #3 networking beaver, Jeff