Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:50:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST |
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On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:46:43PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > > o Full compliance with IPv6 (Alexey Kuznetzov, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team) > > could ease in 2.6.x if not? > > Davem's call I guess. ISTR the USAGI work was a rather large patch which > if in Davem's shoes, I'd be rather dubious about taking 'all-in-one'.
Before the freeze it should be fine, after all if working IDE is optional in a development kernel IPV6 is certainly not a must-have (unless it seriously break IPV4, obviously).
> > > o Add support for NFS v4 (NFS v4 team) > > This really shouldn't wait for 2.8! > > Last I saw of this patch it was still against something like 2.4.1, > so they have a lot of catch up to do. This fact asides, if it doesn't > touch common code, there's no reason it can't go in post-feature freeze > in the same way as a driver/additional fs. Depends how much it touches. > That said, are there really that many NFSv4 hosts out there that make > this a *must have* feature ? Are any other *nix vendors shipping NFSv4 yet?
Not that I have used, this was more of a preemptive effort to get it in 2.6 rather than 2.8, since most vendors will be shipping in less than a year if you believe their unofficial comments. And if the benefits are there it would be a good thing to have first, perhaps.
> > > o Overhaul PCMCIA support (David Woodhouse, David Hinds) > > Sure would be nice if it worked on desktops as well as laptops > > "works for me". Admittedly I've not played with pcmcia much, but it > seems at least if you choose the right hardware it works fine.
I haven't had it work since about 2.6 on a BP6 with an adaptor, but it did work in 2.4.early. Of course it could be related to the new IDE stuff making compact flash fail, but even building a uni kernel doesn't help. I bought a cheap used laptop just to use as a card reader, but I'd rather not stay that way ;-) Guess for now that's the "right hardware."
Thanks for all the additional feedback.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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