Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-23,: Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (beat it up :)

# Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (beat it up :)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 5 Jun 2000 01:27:06 +0100 (BST)

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> fs
> --
> W Merge ext3
> W Merge ReiserFS
W Merge XFS
W Merge NWFS

(All four depend in part on putting the right core journal layer there for
them all to use)

> W ALSA
Parts of

> v4l2 (?)

There is some v4l+v4l2+mjpegapi+more work being done

> Arne Thomassen <arneth@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>:
> W Replace kernel lock with fine-grain locks [probably not]

Killing cli() however is a huge win and wants doing

Add:

Support for processors with 4 level page tables
Support for page table discard (ala NetBSD) for non anonymous pages.
Fine grain locking on the serial layer
64bit file locking

Maybe ext2 acls, file system level capability data

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