Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:55:42 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [RFC] must fix lists |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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