Subject: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix" To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 16:39:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> The order is approximate priority. It may also not be totally accurate. Suggestions/fixes welcome. 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/