From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> Documentation/must-fix.txt | 15 ++++----- Documentation/should-fix.txt | 68 +------------------------------------------ 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 73 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/must-fix.txt~must-fix-update-5 Documentation/must-fix.txt --- 25/Documentation/must-fix.txt~must-fix-update-5 2003-12-18 17:54:41.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/must-fix.txt 2003-12-18 17:54:41.000000000 -0800 @@ -80,15 +80,14 @@ drivers/net/ drivers/net/irda/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -o dongle drivers need to be converted to sir-dev + (Jean Tourrilhes) o irport need to be converted to sir-kthread -o new drivers (irtty-sir/smsc-ircc2/donauboe) need more testing +o dongle drivers need to be converted to sir-dev (in progress) + +o new drivers (irtty-sir/smsc-ircc2/donauboe) need more testing (in progress) -o rmk: Refuse IrDA initialisation if sizeof(structures) is incorrect (I'm - not sure if we still need this; I think gcc 2.95.3 on ARM shows this - problem though.) drivers/pci/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -154,10 +153,10 @@ o forward-port sct's O_DIRECT fixes (Bad o viro: there is some generic stuff for namei/namespace/super, but that's a slow-merge and can go in 2.6 just fine -o andi: also soft needs to be fixed - there are quite a lot of - uninterruptible waits in sunrpc/nfs +o trond: NFS has a mmap-versus-truncate problem (fixed? needs testing) -o trond: NFS has a mmap-versus-truncate problem +o trond: NFSv4 client, bugs in lockd, RPSEC_GSS for NFSv[23], some atomic open + bits. more info: http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/Linux-2.6.x/2.6.0-test11/ kernel/sched.c ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff -puN Documentation/should-fix.txt~must-fix-update-5 Documentation/should-fix.txt --- 25/Documentation/should-fix.txt~must-fix-update-5 2003-12-18 17:54:41.000000000 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/Documentation/should-fix.txt 2003-12-18 17:54:41.000000000 -0800 @@ -52,15 +52,6 @@ drivers/net/wireless/ (Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>) -o get latest orinoco changes from David. - - PRI1 - -o get the latest airo.c fixes from CVS. This will hopefully fix problems - people have reported on the LKML. - - PRI1 - o get HostAP driver in the kernel. No consolidation of the 802.11 management across driver can happen until this one is in (which is probably 2.7.X material). I think Jouni is mostly ready but didn't find time for @@ -69,17 +60,7 @@ o get HostAP driver in the kernel. No c PRI2 o get more wireless drivers into the kernel. The most "integrable" drivers - at this point seem the NWN driver, Pavel's Spectrum driver and the Atmel - driver. - - PRI1 - -o The last two drivers mentioned above are held up by firmware issues (see - flamewar on LKML a few days ago). So maybe fixing those firmware issues - should be a requirement for 2.6.X, because we can expect more wireless - devices to need firmware upload at startup coming to market. - - (in progress?) + at this point seem the NWN driver, Pavel's Spectrum driver. PRI1 @@ -106,40 +87,6 @@ o Integrate Chris Mason's 2.4 reiserfs o Ordered: PRI2 data journalled: PRI3 -o (Trond:) Yes: I'm still working on an atomic "open()", i.e. one - where we short-circuit the usual VFS path_walk() + lookup() + - permission() + create() + .... bullsh*t... - - I have several reasons for wanting to do this (all of - them related to NFS of course, but much of the reasoning applies - to *all* networked file systems). - - 1) The above sequence is simply not atomic on *any* networked - filesystem. - - 2) It introduces a sh*tload of completely unnecessary RPC calls (why - do a 'permission' RPC call when the server is in *any* case going to - tell you whether or not this operations is allowed. Why do a - 'lookup()' when the 'create()' call can be made to tell you whether or - not a file already exists). - - 3) It is incompatible with some operations: the current create() - doesn't pass an 'EXCLUSIVE' flag down to the filesystems. - - 4) (NFS specific?) open() has very different cache consistency - requirements when compared to most other VFS operations. - - I'd very much like for something like Peter Braam's 'lookup with - intent' or (better yet) for a proper dentry->open() to be integrated with - path_walk()/open_namei(). I'm still working on the latter (Peter has - already completed the lookup with intent stuff). - - (All this is in progress, see http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src) - - (Is awaiting Pater Braam's intent patches. Applicable to CIFS) - - PRI2 (?) - o viro: convert more filesystems to use lib/parser.c for options. PRI2 @@ -338,14 +285,9 @@ o mochel: ACPI suspend doesn't work. Im drivers/block/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -o Floppy is almost unusably buggy still - - akpm: we need more people to test & report. - - alan: "Floppy has worked for me since the patches that went in 2.5.69-ac - and I think -bk somewhere" +o More testing of floppy - PRI1 + PRI3 drivers/char/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -450,10 +392,6 @@ sound/ o rmk: several OSS drivers for SA11xx-based hardware in need of ALSA-ification and L3 bus support code for these. -o rmk: linux/sound/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c and - linux/sound/drivers/virmidi.c complained about 'errno' at some time in the - past, need to confirm whether this is still a problem. - o rmk: need to complete ALSA-ification of the WaveArtist driver for both NetWinder and other stuff (there's some fairly fundamental differences in the way the mixer needs to be handled for the NetWinder.) _