From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
OK, a new patch. Includes everyone's suggestions. If anyone wants to
be removed from the CC list please email me privately.
Documentation/must-fix.txt | 49 +++++++++++--------------------------------
Documentation/should-fix.txt | 26 ++--------------------
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/must-fix.txt~must-fix-update-01 Documentation/must-fix.txt
--- 25/Documentation/must-fix.txt~must-fix-update-01 2003-11-04 21:59:57.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/Documentation/must-fix.txt 2003-11-04 21:59:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -13,17 +13,11 @@ o TTY locking is broken.
o somebody will have to document the tty driver and ldisc API
-o Lack of test cases and/or stress tests is a problem. Contributions and
- suggestions are sought.
-
-o Lots of drivers are using cli/sti and are broken.
-
drivers/tty
~~~~~~~~~~~
-o viro: we need to fix refcounting for tty_driver (oopsable race, must fix
- anyway, hopefully about a week until it's merged) then we can do
- tty/misc/upper levels of sound.
+o viro: tty_driver refcounting, tty/misc/upper levels of sound still not
+ completely fixed.
drivers/block/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -33,16 +27,6 @@ o ideraid hasn't been ported to 2.5 at a
We need to understand whether the proposed BIO split code will suffice
for this.
-o CD burning. There are still a few quirks to solve wrt SG_IO and ide-cd.
-
- Jens: The basic hang has been solved (double fault in ide-cd), there still
- seems to be some cases that don't work too well. Don't really have a
- handle on those :/
-
-o lmb: Last time I looked at the multipath code (2.5.50 or so) it also
- looked pretty broken; I plan to port forward the changes we did on 2.4
- before KS.
-
drivers/input/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -84,14 +68,6 @@ o viro: actually, misc.c has a good chan
drivers/net/
~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o rmk: network drivers. ARM people like to add tonnes of #ifdefs into
- these to customise them to their hardware platform (eg, chip access
- methods, addresses, etc.) I cope with this by not integrating them into my
- tree. The result is that many ARM platforms can't be built from even my
- tree without extra patches. This isn't sane, and has bred a culture of
- network drivers not being submitted. I don't see this changing for 2.6
- though.
-
drivers/net/irda/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -176,6 +152,8 @@ o rmk: I have a pending todo: I need to
o James B: USB hot-removal crash: "It's a known scsi refcounting issue."
+o James B: refcounting issues in SCSI and in the block layer.
+
fs/
~~~
@@ -333,11 +311,15 @@ o rmk: need to complete ALSA-ification o
global
~~~~~~
-o 64-bit dev_t. Seems almost ready, but it's not really known how much
- work is still to do. Patches exist in -mm but with the recent rise of the
- neo-viro I'm not sure where things are at.
+o alan, Albert Cahalan: 1000 HZ timer increases the need for a stable time
+ source. Many laptops, SMI can lose ticks. ACPI timers? TSC?
+
+o viro: 64-bit dev_t (not a mustfix for 2.6.0). 32-bit dev_t is done, 64-bit
+ means extra work on nfsd/raid/etc.
-o Lots of 2.4 fixes including some security are not in 2.5
+o alan: Forward port 2.4 fixes
+ - Security fixes including execve holes, execve vs proc races
+ - SiS IRQ routing for newer SiS and older Intel
o There are about 60 or 70 security related checks that need doing
(copy_user etc) from Stanford tools. (badari is looking into this, and
@@ -345,10 +327,5 @@ o There are about 60 or 70 security rela
o A couple of hundred real looking bugzilla bugs
-o viro: cdev rework. Main group is pretty stable and I hope to feed it to
- Linus RSN. That's cdev-cidr and ->i_cdev/->i_cindex stuff
-
-o Athlon prefetch oopses sometimes. It is currently disabled, and needs to
- be fixed.
-
+o viro: cdev rework. Mostly done.
diff -puN Documentation/should-fix.txt~must-fix-update-01 Documentation/should-fix.txt
--- 25/Documentation/should-fix.txt~must-fix-update-01 2003-11-04 21:59:57.000000000 -0800
+++ 25-akpm/Documentation/should-fix.txt 2003-11-04 22:00:26.000000000 -0800
@@ -10,13 +10,8 @@ PRI3: Not very important
drivers/block/
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-o Framework for selecting IO schedulers. This is the main one really.
- Once this is in place we can drop in new schedulers any old time, no risk.
- Nick Piggin has code for this.
-
- PRI1
-
-o viro: paride drivers need a big cleanup
+o viro: paride drivers need a big cleanup. Partially done, but ATAPI drivers
+ need serious work and bug fixing.
PRI2
@@ -145,15 +140,7 @@ o (Trond:) Yes: I'm still working on an
PRI2 (?)
-o (Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>): NFS O_DIRECT support must be
- completed. The best approach is to fall back to something like the 2.4 NFS
- O_DIRECT support, which issues RPCs synchronously and uses the RPC
- completion mechanism to wait for I/O completion.
-
- PRI2
-
-o viro: cleaning up options-parsers in filesystems. (patch exists, needs
- porting).
+o viro: convert more filesystems to use lib/parser.c for options.
PRI2
@@ -200,9 +187,6 @@ o klibc merge?
mm/
~~~
-o objrmap: concerns over page reclaim performance at high sharing levels,
- and interoperation with nonlinear mappings is hairy.
-
o oxymoron's async write-error-handling patch
PRI1
@@ -514,10 +498,6 @@ o NMI watchdog seems to tick too fast
PRI2
-o not very well tested. probably more bugs lurking.
-
- PRI1
-
o need to coredump 64bit vsyscall code with dwarf2
PRI2
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