Re: Plans for 2.5

Giacomo Catenazzi (cate@math.ethz.ch)
Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:11:18 +0200


"Hen, Shmulik" wrote:
>
> Just some general questions:
>
> 1) Is there anywhere a list that describes what is intended to be in 2.5.x ?

General/Big changes are discussed in:
http://lwn.net/2001/0329/a/kernel-summit-agenda.php3

> 2) Are there any early releases of 2.5.x ?
> 3) Are the things for 2.5.x being discussed on another mailing list ?

kbuild list discusses about:

new configuration language (an unified language: now there are
three
implementation: 2 shell like and one different, so it fail
with most
of changes).

new makefiles. Actual makefile will fail with dependencies and
modules.

> 4) What is the time frame of releasing 2.5.x-final (or 2.6.x) ?
>

> Specifically, I'm more interested in the network driver aspect.
> 1) Are there any intended changes to the networking layer ?
> 2) I over heard something about making the driver reentrant - any news ?
> 3) What about support for IPv6 ? (I noticed it was marked as experimental
> until now)

giacomo
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