2.6.x features log

2.6.x features log

[Randy.Dunlap]

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?

For example (and some of these might not be needed here):

- NUMA support and API, including some CPU affinity updates
- hotplug and udev
- security fixes
- better ACPI support, better interrupt routing, MSI support
- faster pipes


Thoughts?

Thanks,
-- 
~Randy

Re: 2.6.x features log

[jerome lacoste]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:34:36 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> 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.

I loved going through the kernel newbies status:

http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status/

Unfortunately it's not updated anymore.

J

Re: 2.6.x features log

[Rahul Karnik]

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:34:36 -0800, Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

> 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?

Personally speaking, the key feature of the Halloween document was not
documenting what new features we had in the kernel -- it was the
ability to see what _user-visible_ changes there were. As a
"mainstream" user, I might not care much about a new O(1) scheduler,
but I might be affected by the removal of (say) ipchains.

Thanks,
Rahul

Re: 2.6.x features log

[Diego Calleja]

El Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:34:36 -0800 "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> escribió:

> 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?


lwn.net has always had a excellent kernel development coverage

Re: 2.6.x features log

[Dave Jones]

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?

I don't really have the time right now to maintain it,
but if you want to take anything from the doc I wrote,
or push it for inclusion in the tree so others can
modify it at will, feel free.

		Dave

Re: 2.6.x features log

[Christoph Hellwig]

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?

Re: 2.6.x features log

[Dave Jones]

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