From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] must fix lists
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:55:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031024015542.GQ7665@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F986859.2000101@cyberone.com.au>
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:46:33AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 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.
Still not completely fixed.
> 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.
32-bit dev_t is done, 64-bit means extra work on nfsd/raid/etc. for those who
are really interested. Not a mustfix for 2.6.0.
> 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
Mostly done.
> o viro: paride drivers need a big cleanup
Partially done, but ATAPI drivers will need serious work. There are
real bugs, BTW - it's not just that code is ugly as hell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-24 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-21 5:46 [RFC] must fix lists Nick Piggin
2003-10-21 9:36 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-10-22 0:40 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-21 16:18 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-10-22 2:50 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-10-23 21:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-10-23 21:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-10-23 23:46 ` Nick Piggin
2003-10-24 1:06 ` Albert Cahalan
2003-10-24 1:55 ` viro [this message]
2003-10-24 0:23 ` Chris Wright
2003-10-25 20:18 ` Alan Cox
2003-10-27 12:53 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Nick Piggin
2003-10-27 18:24 ` ACPI PM-Timer [Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] must fix lists] Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-27 18:42 ` john stultz
2003-10-27 18:49 ` Dominik Brodowski
2003-10-27 19:07 ` john stultz
2003-10-27 23:01 ` ACPI PM-Timer rev.2 [Was: Re: ACPI PM-Timer [Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] must fix lists]] Dominik Brodowski
2003-11-04 22:03 ` john stultz
2003-10-27 9:48 [RFC] must fix lists Mikael Pettersson
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