From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261726AbVAIThb (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:37:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261728AbVAIThb (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:37:31 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60815 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261726AbVAIThZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:37:25 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 14:36:43 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Christoph Hellwig , "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml Subject: Re: 2.6.x features log Message-ID: <20050109193642.GB5528@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , "Randy.Dunlap" , lkml References: <41DEC82C.4040502@osdl.org> <20050109121830.GA25170@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050109121830.GA25170@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:18:30PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:34:36AM -0800, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > > > I think that people really like the Dave Jones > > 2.5/2.6 halloween information/update. It contained a lot > > of useful info in one place, with pointers to more details. > > > > What I'm seeing (and getting a little concerned about, > > although I dislike PR with a passion) is that the 2.6.x > > continuous development cycle will cause us (the Linux > > community) to miss logging some of these important new > > features (outside of bk). Has anyone kept a track of new > > features that are being added in 2.6? > > > > I'll keep a list (or someone else can -- DaveJ ?) if anyone > > is interested in feeding items into it. Or do distros > > already keep such a running list of new features? > > Debian actually patches Dave's post_halloween document into > Documentation. Maybe we should put it there for mainline > aswell and make sure to update it when doing major changes? I've said "Sure, go for it" to a number of people who brought this up, but nothing has ever come of it. I'll send it to Linus myself later today. 8) Dave