Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:31:22 -0500


> The order is approximate priority. It may also not be totally accurate.
> Suggestions/fixes welcome.

What about PCMCIA stuff? Apparently, noone will bother helping with any
problems I was experiencing with the kernel pcmcia on my nec versa sx
laptop.

All:
If someone decides to help, I won't beable to do anything this week, I don't
have my laptop with me.

> Multiwrite IDE breaks on a disk error
> Poll on > 16000 file handles fails
> Restore O_SYNC functionality
> Merge the network fixes - there is a ton of backed up stuff to do asap
> ISA DMA is no longer allocating correctly aligned data
> vmalloc(GFP_DMA) is needed for DMA drivers
> VM needs rebalancing
> NFSD fixes for path walking to regenerate dentries
> Fix eth= command line
> Check O_APPEND atomicity bug fixing is complete
> Protection on isize (sct)
> Merge 2.2.13/14 changes
> Get RAID 0.90 in
> PAE36 failures
> USB HID merge
> Mikulas claims we need to fix the getblk/mark_buffer_uptodate thing gor
> 2.3.x as well
> PIII/Athlon/MMX/etc acceleration merge from 2.2.x-ac
> Merge arcnet update (DONE)
> Fix SPX socket code
> AHA152x isnt smp safe (FIXED)
> NCR5380 isnt smp safe
> isofs break on 4Gig disk (FIXED ?)
> Finish 64bit vfs merges (stat64 etc) (DONE ??)
> Make syncppp use new ppp code
> Fbcon races
> Fix all remaining PCI code to use new resources and enable_Device
> Stackable fs ?? (Erez)
> Get the Emu10K merged
> Test PMC code on Athlon
> Fix module remove race bug (-- not in open so why did I see crashes ??? --)
> Per Process rtsigio
> Maybe merge the ibcs emulation code
> VFS?VM - mmap/write deadlock
> initrd is bust
> rw sempahores on page faults (mmap_sem)
> kiobuf seperate lock functions/bounce/page_address fixes
> per super block write_super needs an async flag
> addres_space needs a VM pressure/flush callback
> per file_op rw_kiovec
> enhanced disk statistics
> Fix routing by fwmark
> put_user appears to be broken for i386 machines
>
>
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
> Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

-- 
 Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals

- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/