From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261527AbVAGSye (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:54:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261528AbVAGSye (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:54:34 -0500 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.199]:10385 "EHLO rproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261527AbVAGSyZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:54:25 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=KKYGuQ0ZUb60Z8zafWrVMQYUAj2yIS7C72YP8f0XQe0g7kPjD+UljsIpJfM21RoLPDG8qJpWl2tizwyqxVY/llcc4Nt1nijQstXAfmYImk/oMhswfMbGaWiFzf+h1XAJZKDubuXLiQ6xo+bf3VPx/4BBSbITTTPrwFo8965isrg= Message-ID: <5b64f7f0501071054589f451f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 13:54:22 -0500 From: Rahul Karnik Reply-To: Rahul Karnik To: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: 2.6.x features log Cc: lkml In-Reply-To: <41DEC82C.4040502@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <41DEC82C.4040502@osdl.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 09:34:36 -0800, Randy.Dunlap 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